Cecil B. DeMille Quotes
Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.
Macpherson, Jeanie. Opening Intertitle. The Ten Commandments, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, 1923.
Cunningham obtained much of his support from Christian fundamentalists. Once in office, he repeatedly lied about his activities, took massive bribes, arranged defense contracts for companies who had minimal qualifications but paid him, threatened civil servants and members of his own party, obtained a yacht illegally, cheated on his income taxes, attended orgies organized by the companies that were paying him. His values were as far from Christian values as can be. The judge who sentenced him to jail described him as “the most corrupt Congressman in American history,” but he knew, like many politicians, how to play the Christian Fundamentalists.
Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and producer. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.
