Release, runtime and language

1923 · 136 mins

#17,946 8

Directed by

Cecil B. DeMille

Starring

Noble Johnson, Estelle Taylor, Richard Dix, Eugene Pallette, Roscoe Karns, Rex Ingram

The film opens with Moses leading the Hebrews out of Egypt, receiving the Ten Commandments and confronting the worship of a golden calf. It then jumps to modern San Francisco, where the timeless relevance of the law is illustrated through two rival brothers, John and Dan, vying for Mary’s affection and clashing when John discovers Dan used inferior materials to build a cathedral.