# Banning 10 Commandments Movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 22, 2007, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-10-commandments-movie/430973 "2007-12-22T22:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-10-commandments-movie/430973/21 "2007-12-25T00:55:22Z")
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing] Was he an anti-semite? I hadn’t heard that. I know Bnai Brith protested King of Kings. [/QUOTE] In his speech at the Directors’ Guild meeting where he tried to force all members to sign a loyalty oath, during the Cold War, his remarks were interpreted by many people present to have an antisemitic tone. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-10-commandments-movie/430973/22 "2007-12-25T02:36:10Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] In his speech at the Directors’ Guild meeting where he tried to force all members to sign a loyalty oath, during the Cold War, his remarks were interpreted by many people present to have an antisemitic tone. [/QUOTE] I might want to look at a link to this, in order to judge. Especially considering that the man was half-Jewish himself. So, cite? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-10-commandments-movie/430973/23 "2007-12-25T04:28:15Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto] I might want to look at a link to this, in order to judge. Especially considering that the man was half-Jewish himself. So, cite? [/QUOTE] > **[Elia Kazan](https://books.google.com/books?id=zWS36Sjxb1EC&pg=PA219&dq=demille+%22loyalty+oath%22+guild+huston+date:1950-2007&lr=&num=50&as_brr=0&sig=fTYvSRa9LLoCLmALXQOzd_vbEKY#PPA219,M1)** > > Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important and influential director in the... Just a quick find. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-10-commandments-movie/430973/24 "2007-12-25T13:08:51Z")
As to the Legion of Decency or any other Catholic league being against the 10 Commandments … I am going to call BS unless we can get a decent cite. [link](http://www.adherents.com/people/pd/Cecil_B_DeMille.html) \* DeMille made a rush trip to Europe and had the pleasure of being received in audience by Pope Pius XII.\* In fact, this was his second Papal audience as he was to meet the (WWI Pope) Benedict in 1922 but it didn’t work out. \* In Rome, [Cecil B.] DeMille and [Paul] Iribe were invited to see Pope Benedict XV at a private audience. When they arrived at the Vatican they were coldly received and virtually asked to leave. They looked at each other in astonishment: they had dressed precisely according to the dictates of protocol, and were scrupulously punctual. But they had overlooked one detail: the Pope had died that day.\* Not to highjack this too far but: DeMille’s Mom was Jewish and converted to marry his Dad - wouldn’t he more properly be called a self hating Jew? _Can_ he really be “anti-semitic”? and it is worth pointing out that Kazan had a dog in the Loyalty Oath fight obviously … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banning-10-commandments-movie/430973.md?page=1)