Yul Brynner awesome last nite in The 10 Commandments (movie) - Page 2

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/12/09 at 4:17pm

Just think how his Prince of Egypt outfit would have gone with his hat & six guns.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 4/12/09 at 6:23pm

Anne Baxter's line is burned in my brain like Hebrew letters burned into two styrofoam tablets:

"Oh, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool."

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 12:08am

My God, there was so much Splendid Beefcake in that movie I was wondering if Cecil B DeMille was a closet case like Josh Logan...

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 12:03pm

Jeffrey Hunter wore a wristwatch in one scene of THE KING OF KINGS however the newer releases of the film have the watch digitally remved.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 12:49pm

Yul Brynner is even more awe-inspiring in the photographs taken by the great American photographer George Platt Lynes in 1942.

Not only is Yul wearing less than he wore in either The King and I or The Ten Commandments, but the photographs also prove indubitably, once and for all, in case you had any doubt, and in great detail, that Yul Brynner was NOT Jewish.

(Or Muslim, for that matter.)

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 1:03pm

Was Yul gay? I've seen Platt Lynes' work and love it-so kitschy!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 1:56pm

Not according to Joan Crawford and Judy Garland.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 1:57pm

Hmmm, those two gals? he was gay, lol.

[Estrella]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 2:42pm

The acting in The Ten Commandments was horrendous, like a bad example of high school acting. The special effects were terrible. Sorry. De Mille should have stayed with silent pictures, but had no option if he wanted to continue in film.

Yul Brynner claimed to be on Romani descent, part Mongolian and part Russian. He teamed up with the legendary Romani singer Alesha Dimitrievich in the Paris cafes and nightclubs until the outbreak of WWll. Brynner was able to get a visa to America but Dimitrievich was not, so he went to Argentina.

This early part of Brynner's career would make an interesting musical bio. Dimitrievich would work aboard a tramp to get from country to country and made his living traveling the world singing in waterfront bars. Somewhere in southern Europe he met with Brynner and they toured together until the war.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 8:37pm

Everything in 10 Commandments is over the top. We are talking about C B DeMille for gods sake.When he went to the bathroom,it was an event.

The dialog is a trip. I love Vincent Prices deadpan delivery.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 9:29pm

Thanks god that film is the way it is!

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 10:22pm

ahhhhhhhh....handsome bald men!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/13/09 at 11:15pm

He wasn't always bald.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 1:11am

Lord help me, but every time I watch this film and "The King and I", I can't help wondering just how many gay men back in the '50's went to see these just for all the nipple action going on...

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/14/09 at 6:45am

Maybe a few went for the songs in King & the acting & dialogue in 10.