Held the record for being the highest-grossing Biblical movie for 48 years, until finally being surpassed by "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004.

To promote this film, MGM donated 2,000 replicas of the Stone Tablets to local civic organizations, to be placed in front of courthouses and the like. To this day, they remain controversial, the subject of an intense church-and-state debate.

The baby Moses was played by Fraser Heston, Charlton Heston's son.

Future famous musician Herb Alpert has a cameo as a drummer boy during the massive Exodus scene. Submitted by wizard_of_gore

The voice of God giving the Ten Commandments is a chorus of several male voices including, principally, Charlton Heston's and Cecil B.DeMille's, recorded separately with one track laid on top of the other and altered electronically. The other voices in the chorus were those of actor and singer Delos Jewkes and Donald Hayne, DeMille's publicist/biographer. Submitted by wizard_of_gore

Some of the props used in the film - in particular cups, glasses and tableware - were used in the episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) called "Tapestry". Submitted by wizard_of_gore

The narrator of the film is actually the director, Cecil B. DeMille. Submitted by wizard_of_gore