To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharaoh Rameses I (Ian Keith), condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses (Fraser C. Heston) is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the ...

DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments, which celebrates its 68th ... turned his back on a life of privilege in the land of Pharaoh (Yul Brynner) to set his Hebrew people free.

The story begins in the city of Pi-Ramesses, in Egypt, at approximately 1300 B.C, when the powerful pharaoh Seti, orders the death of every male newborn in his hatred of the Hebrew people.