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About 1956 American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Genres drama, adventure, sword-and-sandal, historical
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Written by Æneas MacKenzie, Jesse Louis Lasky Jr., Fredric M. Frank, Jack Gariss
Starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Cecil B. DeMille, Anne Baxter, Vincent Price, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, John Carradine
Music Elmer Bernstein
Runtime 220 min
Country United States
Links Wikipedia · IMDb · Letterboxd · Wikidata
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