# ABC's The Ten Commandments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abcs-the-ten-commandments/352171 "2006-04-11T01:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VegemiteMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/df788c/32.png) [@VegemiteMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VegemiteMoose)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abcs-the-ten-commandments/352171/21 "2006-04-12T05:54:44Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I have been told by both heterosexual women and homosexual men that the best part of watching the 1956 version is all the beefcake. Being neither, I can’t comment on that or how the new version measures up. > > What I don’t get is, it’s the 50th anniversary. Why are they showing a new version? And where is that great Doper wit, in which The Ten Commandments is combined with Planet of the Apes and the NRA? Thou shalt not covet Cornelius’ Glock. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abcs-the-ten-commandments/352171/22 "2006-04-12T10:31:51Z")
Up until this newest version I’d seen four others. The 1956, with Hestion. The mini-series from the 70’s, with Burt Lancaster. The TNT movie, with Ben Kingsley as Moses. And _The Prince of Egypt._ All of these were different, and had something to recommend them, and I liked them all. The current effort was not worth the trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abcs-the-ten-commandments/352171/23 "2006-04-12T14:12:08Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > By the way, the Pharaoh’s son’s unilock of hair is the same that Yul Brynner wears at the beginningh of The 1956 film, and was copied from ancient carvings. They used it in the Spielberg cartoon, too. Yeah, that seems to have been the ubiquitous “kid’s haircut” in ancient Egyptian times. Adults often had fully shaved heads which were covered with wigs-- I guess the sidelock would indicate the child wasn’t old enough to be completely bald yet. As I understand, the locks were often saved after they were cut, and buried with the person when they died. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abcs-the-ten-commandments/352171/24 "2006-04-12T17:12:15Z")
> [@IGJoe](#): > > Not asking for a cite exactly, but this kind of stuff interests me, and I can’t seem to find much on the web about it. Got any suggestions on where to find more information? Sorry, can’t help you much on that. There have been a number of GD threads on the subject, so maybe doing a search of Exodus or Egypt will point you in the right direction. * * * Just out of curiousity and boredom, I ended up watching the last half hour of this last night. O…M…G…, that was some of the \*\*worst \*\*television I have ever seen. My local high school could put on a better production than that. The acting sucked, the writing sucked, the special effects sucked, etc. We better hope that story isn’t true, or God is going to punish us all for producing such a crappy verions of it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abcs-the-ten-commandments/352171.md?page=1)