"Bet it didn't have color ;)"
The scene where the Israelites leave Egypt was filmed with the 2-strip Technicolor process.
"IYO do you think the Heston version was better or worse than the 1923 original?"
Apples and oranges, really - there's a modern story that takes up about half of the '23 version, illustrating what happens to folks who don't keep the Commandments.
Theodore Roberts, the earlier Moses, was a fine actor but he doesn't really have the look:
http://www.josephhaworth.com/images/Fellow%20Actors/Theodore%20Roberts/Theodore_Roberts-production_shot_Ten_Commandments-Photo-tinted-Resized.jpg
I just can't win tonight.
;)
Yeah, he does lack the look.
