2. Cecil B. DeMille - The Ten Commandments
In 1923, half-mad director Cecil B. DeMille directed the epic silent feature entitled The Ten Commandmants. Coming in at two hours and fifteen minutes long (a monster for the times) and costing just over a million dollars to make the film would spin box office gold, raking over four times its budget in profits. It seemed that DeMille had struck a chord with his biblical epic. In fact he would revisit the idea many times in his career. In the early fifties DeMille began working on a remake of The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. It would be his last film. This time the movie, adjusting for inflation, would make over a billion dollars and become the staple of all bible epics ever made.