![]() With its exteriors filmed on location in Egypt and at a total cost of $15 million, there's nothing at all modest about this movie. Just as Hitchcock implied suspense and Lubitsch sophistication, DeMille stood for spectacle in an era when these were virtually the only three directors whose names meant anything to the general public.ĭeMille crowned his services to the Cinema of Excess with his 1956 remake of The Ten Commandments. ![]() DeMille: the name is a kind of instant shorthand for Hollywood in all its brash vulgarity and meretricious splendour.
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