A framework story serves as context for a retelling of the Exodus story and, most importantly, a recycling of footage from the silent version of The Ten Commandments.
Production
They literally reused 1923's Ten Commandments footage. Bold!
Costume
Anya's furs versus biblical robes. Whiplash wardrobe.
Director
William Schorr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Paramount's attempt to squeeze more value from DeMille's $1.5 million silent epic by wrapping new footage around old miracles.
Sari Maritza, the exotic 'Russian' lead, was actually born in Vienna as Dora Maria von Fiedler-Saul — Hollywood's passport to 'foreign' glamour was very flexible in 1932.
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