A tribute to Vincent Price's gloriously camp performance as Baka in The Ten Commandments. I have corrected some of director DeMille's mise-en-scène errors by placing Baka in centre of frame.
I bought CD of Ten Commandments...and watched it frequently , watched it with my grandsons & granddaughters. First time i ' ve watched thus film us when i was 9yrs old,now im 70.
It is one of the particularities of this film that some of the best lines were given to the « bad guys ». Who can forget Yul Brynner as Pharaoh saying « Better to die in battle with a god than to live in shame ».
My favorite line by Vincent Prince in _The Ten Commandments,_ is when he offers Lilia wine. He describes it with great relish in his voice as "the blood of Thracian grapes." 🍇🍷
Lol I particularly loved when he had Joshua tied up and about to whip him for saving Lillia and told him.. . You've seen me used my whip, I can flick a fly from my horses ear without breaking the rhythm of his stride. Epic line
This is probably one of the best films of that erra in this genera(Hollywood Bible Stories, cliche, fantasy).. hands down... loved it when I first saw it.. as a kid on TV..
I've seen some of the others from that era such as David & Bath-Sheba (1951), Sins of Jezebel (1954), Ben Hur (1959) & Esther & The King (1961). Some are maybe not entirely Biblically correct but they are all wonderful.
Vincent Price is a well-known star of thrillers and he was in "The Great Mouse Detective", "The Thief & the Cobbler" & as Irontail in "Here Comes Peter Cottontail"
Believe it or not. Vincent Price and the actress who played “Lydia” Debra Paget would be in two more movies together after this. Again his character treats her badly in both of them. She must have loved sharing the screen with Price.
No, one else could have played Baka, but Vincent Price, he so captures the decadence, arrogance, that might have been empyreal ancient Egypt of the bible...
I can still remember that wonderful line said by Sophia to either Dorothy or Rose in the Golden Girls. " What the hell was Edward G. Robinson doing in the Ten Commandments."
La cantidad de luminarias en esta película es increíble. Como el guion, los efectos y todo lo demás. Debería ser considerada patrimonio de la humanidad.
The pharaoh is played by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. I highly recommend The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) he is brilliant in it as the lusty Chief Justice Claude Frollo. The Disney version (1996) took great inspiration from this awesome movie.
Isaiah 19:2 [2]And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
That's NOT "mise-en-scene errors", it's Paramount's new VistaVision & veteran DeMille's 1st widescreen effort, he'd already filmed this story as a silent, you've panned & scanned Hollywood legend, this production won Oscar for photography.
I'm afraid you've misunderstood my humour and my intentions. The Ten Commandments is one of my favourite films, its direction and cinematography are spectacular, and it is an astonishingly triumphant swan song for DeMille.
I have Vincent Price's death mask from the Ackerman collection, along with Bela and Boris. I also have his visage on my skin. Mudflowers, no time for tears.
Visually as good as any movie ever made but ohhhhhh that purple dialogue. Just awful! I like watching it with mute button on. Brynner really steals it. He's tough minded stubborn and seems far more real than anyone else. Chucks beard does all his work for him.
