Cecil B. DeMille

All Movies of Cecil B. DeMille

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  8.0
  The Ten Commandments
  To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all first-born Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up i...
  Director of the film

   1956

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  7.2
  The Greatest Show on Earth
  To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in ...
  Director of the film

   1952

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  8.7
  Sunset Boulevard
  A bankrupt screenwriter (William Holden) takes refuge in the mansion of a faded star (Gloria Swanson) of the silent era, in order to escape the debt-collectors who are chasing after him. What he begins to realize however, is that ...
  Character: Cecil B. DeMille

   1950

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  7.2
  Samson and Delilah
  In Palestine, 1000 B.C., the Jews are ruled by the Philistines Samson, budding Jewish revolutionary, wants to marry Semadar, a Philistine, though it's her young sister, Delilah, who really wants Samson. The wedding becomes a fight...
  Director of the film

   1949

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  7.0
  Unconquered
  It's 1763 and two men taking the same ship back to Virginia from London bid for the contract of a woman who was given a choice between execution in England or 14 years of indentured servitude in the colonies. The winner gallantly ...
  Director of the film

   1947

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  6.3
  Variety Girl
  Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion...
   1947

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  6.5
  The Story of Dr. Wassell
  As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sai...
  Director of the film

   1944

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  7.9
  Star Spangled Rhythm
  Pop Webster (Victor Moore) is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's told his son Johnny (Eddie Bracken), who's in the Nav...
   1943

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  6.8
  Reap the Wild Wind
  In 1840, America's line life is the sea, with an intense commerce. In Key West shore, two ship savage companies dispute the wrecked vessels. The honest one belongs to the impulsive Loxi Claiborne and Capt. Phil Philpott and the ot...
  Director of the film

   1942

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  6.2
  North West Mounted Police
  In 1885, three mismatched frontiersmen (teacher Riel, whiskey trader Corbeau, and trapper Duroc) foment rebellion in central Canada; only the local Mounties stand in their way. Constable Ronnie Logan loves Corbeau's savage daughte...
  Director of the film

   1940

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  7.7
  Union Pacific
  This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union Pacific is completed and arrives at its destination i...
  Director of the film

   1939

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  7.5
  The Buccaneer
  During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an islan...
  Director of the film

   1938

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  7.0
  The Crusades
  The Third Crusade as it didn't happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France; en route, he marries Berengaria to get food for his men. Berengaria.is captured by Saladin, spurring...
  Director of the film

   1935

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  6.5
  Cleopatra
  In 48 BC, Cleopatra, facing palace revolt in her kingdom of Egypt, welcomes the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Rome. When Caesar, whom she has led astray, is killed, she transfers her affections t...
  Director of the film

   1934

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  5.0
  This Day and Age
  Director of the film

   1933

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  7.5
  The Sign of the Cross
  Director of the film

   1932

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  Dynamite
  Director of the film

   1929

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  Walking Back
  After his father refuses to lend him his car, jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy to a dance. After a car-fight with a rival the borrowed automobile is so wrecked that Smoke cannot
  Director of the film

   1928

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  6.2
  The Volga Boatman
  In tsarist Russia, the Volga boatmen live hard lives, trudging along the water's edge as they pull heavy cargoes up and down the river. One day, as Prince Dimitri and his fiancée Princess Vera stop to have their fortunes told at ...
  Director of the film

   1926

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  Manslaughter
  Director of the film

   1922

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  Old Wives for New
  Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife in favor of Juliet Raeburn but, when Juliet's name is involved in murder, he marries Viola and takes her to Paris.
  Director of the film

   1918

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  5.8
  Joan the Woman
  A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
  Director of the film

   1916

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  The Cheat
  Director of the film

   1915

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  The Girl of the Golden West
  Road agent Ramerrez hides out in his girlfriend's store where the Sheriff knows him to be. The Sheriff plays The Girl a game of cards to decide Ramerrez's future. She wins. She later saves him from a hanging. She rides off with hi
  Director of the film

   1915