Today’s scene that I love comes from 1956’s The Ten Commandments.

Cecil B. DeMille is often unfairly dismissed as a director, just as Charlton Heston is often underrated as an actor.  To me, this is one of the most powerful scenes in DeMille’s filmography.  The sound of the screams is haunting.  However, one must remember that, as with all the plagues that afflicted Egypt, the Pharoah was given fair warning.