'The Ten Commandments': Read THR's 1956 Review — hollywoodreporter.com

In the fall of 1956, moviegoers were greeted with what would become one of Hollywood's most enduring Biblical-themed films, The Ten Commandments. On Oct. 5, 1956, The Hollywood Reporter gave the highest praise to the film in a review originally headlined, "'The Ten Commandments' C.B. DeMille's Masterpiece — Monumental Production, Entertaining and Uplifting, An Unsurpassed Achievement" Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments is, in many ways, the summit of screen achievement. It is not just a great and powerful motion picture, although it is that; it is also a new human experience. If there were but one print of this Paramount picture, the place of its showing would be the focus of a world-wide pilgrimage. As it is, Cecil B. DeMille's lofty and crowning achievement will bring into theatres throughout the world the most important segment of potential audiences: the people who do not attend movies regularly or do not go at all. They will go to this one.

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