Buried beneath the shifting sands of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes is a story of Biblical proportions.
In 1923, legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille built an epic Egyptian dreamscape on California's Central Coast for the silent black-and-white movie "The Ten Commandments."
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October 20, 2014 9:40 AM
Glad to know that the stories we were told as kids about the Egypt left in the nearby Dunes were true. Thanks for running this human interest story. It is of interest to some of us.
October 19, 2014 9:05 AM
What's interesting about the 1920's movie industry is how far and wide they roamed for locations in Southern California. Few people know that over 500 movies of that era were shot in Orange County. One example is the trench scenes in "All Quiet on the Western Front" which...
October 18, 2014 2:26 PM
@peabody3000 Well that really now depends on who your talking to. This film was a critical and commercial success and regarded by many critics as an unprecedented work of art. DeMille remade the film decades later using almost identical set pieces. Even if all that weren't true,...
October 18, 2014 9:29 AM
There's a 2007 'B movie' called the Sands of Oblivion (with George Kennedy) that went looking for and found DeMille's movie set too. Poor George was killed early by a long lost Pharaohs curse.