To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri, as well as the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him who can 'harden his heart'.
Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Every year since 1973, American TV network ABC airs this film on Easter, or Passover. In 1999, when for some reason ABC chose not to televise it, they received numerous irate phone calls from people accustomed to watching it every Easter than they have for any other film they have ever telecast.
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Goofs
Factual errors:
In the commentary for the 1923 silent which is included in this 3-disc dvd set, historian Katherine Orrison states that the child actor outside the lunch wagon is actor Roscoe Karns. Roscoe Karns was a fully grown 32 year old man when this film was made. Karns is actually the man in the lunch wagon talking to Rod La Rocque at the wagons lunch counter.
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Quotes
Rameses:
You have rat's ears and a ferret's nose. Dathan:
To use in your service, true son of Pharaoh. Rameses:
Add to them, the eyes of a weasel. And find me this would-be deliverer. See more »
Crazy Credits
The Paramount mountain was replaced with Mount Sinai and the sky is red, also.
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