Paramount Pictures celebrates the 50th anniversary of Cecil B. DeMilles Bible epic spectacular, The Ten Commandments, with a double feature that includes both the 1956 version and the directors original 1923 silent version. 1923: After a prologue depicting the Biblical stories from Exodus, the story picks up in modern-day San Francisco where two brothers, John and Dan McTavish, love Mary Leigh. She chooses Dan, who becomes a wealthy building contractor by using inferior materials and bribing the building inspector, Redding. This is the beginning of his downfall, ending in a cycle of violence.1956: The life of Moses and his leading of the Israelites to the Promised Land. Moses journey from prince of Egypt to prophet and leader of the Hebrew slaves.
