Philo wrote at the time that Jesus of Nazareth walked the Earth, and Josephus wrote some 50 years later and watched the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.

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13 seconds sound clip from the The Ten Commandments (1956) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:02:49.720 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Ladies and gentlemen, young and old, this may seem an unusual procedure, speaking to you before the picture begins, but we have an unusual subject.

- The story of the birth of freedom. The story of Moses.

- The Holy Bible omits some 30 years of Moses' life, from the time he was a 3 months old baby found in the bulrushes by Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, and adopted into the court of Egypt until he learned that he was Hebrew and killed the Egyptian.

- To fill in those missing years, we turned to ancient historians such as Philo and Josephus.

- Philo wrote at the time that Jesus of Nazareth walked the Earth, and Josephus wrote some 50 years later and watched the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.

- These historians had access to documents long since destroyed, or perhaps lost, like the Dead Sea Scrolls.

- The theme of this picture is whether men are to be ruled by God's law, or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Ramses.

- Are men the property of the state, or are they free souls under God?

- This same battle continues throughout the world today.

- Our intention was not to create a story, but to be worthy of the divinely inspired story created 3000 years ago: the five books of Moses.

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Actors: Charlton Heston (Moses), Yul Brynner (Ramses II), Anne Baxter (Nefretiri), Edward G. Robinson (Dathan), Yvonne De Carlo (Sephora)

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