(Cecil B. DeMille, US 1923, 136 min.)

The spectacle of spectacles. Not only a great cast, but the great director of spectacles himself Cecil B. DeMille guides this great story he liked so much that he filmed it twice. DeMille’s earliest epic production, this version, instead of being content with one story or one time period, starts with the Biblical Exodus story and moves to modern times (1923) with another story of good and evil, temptation and redemption, with a moral. This presentation is a restoration from George Eastman House, which used DeMille’s personal nitrate print as its starting point and, using modern technology, created a new negative and prints replicating the look of DeMille’s nitrate, including sequences in his favorite early color system, The Handschiegl Color Process. Live piano by Philip C. Carli.