As long as it is,Cecil B. DeMille's 'The Ten Commandments' ignores some of the most interesting parts of Moses' journey.

It opens with Moses delivering the Ten Commandments amidst the Israelites’ rebellion, depicting the golden calf incident and Moses’ destruction of the tablets in anger. The narrative then ...

In correspondence between Weinman and Gilbert in 1932 and 1933 about the design of the friezes, the Ten Commandments is not even mentioned. Moses is described as one in a parade of “great ...