This exhibit is one of the things that makes the Dunes Center a unique visitor experience and staff and volunteers are passionate about sharing their knowledge and insight into the natural and cultural history of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Complex. We feature a short film on the recovery effort of the set, the people involved in that process and have information, including a booklet focused on the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes film history. In 1983, a group of determined film buffs–inspired by a cryptic clue in DeMille’s posthumously published Autobiography–located the remains of the set.Īt the Dunes Center, in Guadalupe, CA, we have a unique and fascinating exhibit featuring a variety of artifacts from the both the set and the people who were working on the production. Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaohs household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery. By April 1957, the film had earned an unprecedented 10 million from engagements at just eighty theaters, averaging about 1 million per. The Ten Commandments was the highest-grossing film of 1956 and the second most successful film of the decade. With Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. The Ten Commandments received a 4K UHD Blu-Ray release on March 30, 2021. And there it lay, forgotten, for the next 60 years and it still sits there, buried in the sand, known as the “Lost City of Cecil B. The Ten Commandments: Directed by Cecil B. It was called “The City of the Pharaoh.” After filming was complete, DeMille ordered that the entire set be dismantled… and secretly buried in the dunes.
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It was also the second most successful movie of the whole decade, beat only by the film Ben-Hur in 1959, which coincidentally also starred Charlton Heston.
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Lauded for its 'immense and stupendous' scenes, use of Technicolor. DeMille.Written by Jeanie MacPherson, the film is divided into two parts: a prologue recreating the biblical story of the Exodus and a modern story concerning two brothers and their respective views of the Ten Commandments. DeMille built the largest set in movie history in the dunes near Guadalupe, CA, for his silent (and early Technicolor) epic, The Ten Commandments. In 1956, The Ten Commandments was the highest grossing movie of the year, bringing in impressive box office numbers. The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American silent religious epic film produced and directed by Cecil B.