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Category: Directed by Cecil B. DeMille

  • The Ten Commandments (1956, Cecil B. DeMille)

    The Ten Commandments (1956, Cecil B. DeMille)

    While Yul Brynner easily gives the best performance in Ten Commandments, until the second half of the movie Anne Baxter gives the most amusing one. She's an Egyptian princess and she's going to marry the next pharaoh. The next pharaoh is either Brynner or Charlton Heston. Cedric Hardwicke is the current pharaoh and Brynner’s dad.…

  • The Buccaneer (1938, Cecil B. DeMille)

    The Buccaneer (1938, Cecil B. DeMille)

    Even if you give The Buccaneer a lot of its historical absurdities and classic Hollywood whitewashing, even if you give it a motley crew of murdering (but not raping, good family men) pirates getting giddy and doing a singalong while they row themselves through the bayou to fight for Andrew Jackson against the British, even…