Studio....please release the complete mini-series!
Added 6/12/2009
This is a beautiful telling of the Moses storey. The antithesis of the Cecile B DeMille's over-the-top (but enjoyable) version.
This is a very understated, and therefore entirely realistic version of how it could have happened.
The edited version is acceptable, but I recall that the full version really conveyed a sense of the epic journey, which this compressed version, simply does not.
Hopefully the studios will give it a good digital clean up and release the full version in the near future.
Furthermore, the musical score is one of Ennio Morricone's best....not to be missed!
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If you want the original 300 minute production....
Added 5/12/2009
This is an extraordinary production in every respect. However, I'm only giving it a 4 star rating because it's an abridged version of the full 300 minute original. If you want to savor every heartfelt minute of the original 300, consider buying Moses the Lawgiver for Regions 1 (US and Canada) and 4 (Central and South America). This two DVD set plays on American DVD players and has English audio. At the present time, the Region 1 and 4 DVD is available through Amazon.com. You don't have to make do with the abridged version, or pay out for a DVD player to play Region 2 (Europe) as one reviewer did. Stay closer to home and buy this one marketed for Latin America (with the original English audio)!
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Reliving the Exodus
Added 2/2/2009
What can I say about the Movie "Moses" Staring Burt Lancaster other than it does an excelent job of actually following the Book of Exodus in the Bible. THe directors try to keeep the charachter Moses to how he was potrayed in the Bible. Moses stutters so his brother speaks for him to Pharoah. The plagues and the parting of the Red Sea has such realism that you can picture the biblical descprition while viewing it. Mannafalls from the trees like bread from heaven.
I reccommend this version of the story of the Exodus over any other due to its absolute parralelism with the Biblical Story.
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This is a shortened version of a 1970's TV mini series dealing with the story of Moses and the exodus of the Hebrews during the reign of an Egyptian pharaoh.
This movie is not close to the epic of the 1950's classic The Ten Commandments. It can't be really being made for TV. The acting is ok, not stellar, but it won't put you to sleep watching it. The story goes over more than that covered in The Ten Commandments though, and that is something that it has going for it.
Overall it's a good compliment to the de Mille classic and one I recommend watching for what happens after the Hebrews receive the Ten Commandments.
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Burt most have needed the $$.
Added 1/16/2007
Great actor, absolutely terrible movie. So bad that it is almost funny.
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