Get your Ten Commandments right here!

Troubleshooter · 07-31-2008, 01:04 PM

Original copy, hardly adhered to...

839. Charlton Heston's Ten Commandments Tablets from The Ten Commandments. (Paramount, 1956) DeMille's greatest film, and his last, has joined the pantheon of epic films revered from generation to generation. It has become an annual staple of the Easter season, and the few items that have become available from it are dearly treasured – but none more so than the actual tablets of the Ten Commandments, "written with the finger of God". There are few props in the history of film that are so easily recognizable, and so coveted by seasoned collectors of original Hollywood film relics.

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Shawnee123 · 07-31-2008, 02:55 PM

"Heston was overheard muttering 'you can have my ten commandments when you pry them from my cold dead hands.'"

07-31-2008, 01:04 PM	#1
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Get your Ten Commandments right here! Original copy, hardly adhered to... 839. Charlton Heston's Ten Commandments Tablets from The Ten Commandments. (Paramount, 1956) DeMille's greatest film, and his last, has joined the pantheon of epic films revered from generation to generation. It has become an annual staple of the Easter season, and the few items that have become available from it are dearly treasured – but none more so than the actual tablets of the Ten Commandments, "written with the finger of God". There are few props in the history of film that are so easily recognizable, and so coveted by seasoned collectors of original Hollywood film relics. ...more... __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

07-31-2008, 02:55 PM	#2
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	"Heston was overheard muttering 'you can have my ten commandments when you pry them from my cold dead hands.'" __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby Last edited by Shawnee123; 07-31-2008 at 03:02 PM.

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