You will be asked to endure perhaps the most unpleasant location in cinema history.
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A Los Angeles Times article quoted deMille as telling his actors, “Your skin will be cooked raw. Filming in this location took a breakneck three weeks. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era,” he said, “What do they want me to do? Stop now and release it as The Five Commandments?” There was, in fact, no stopping. The director responded to Zukor: “I cannot and will not make pictures with a yardstick.” According to author Sumiko Higashi in her book “Cecil B. Also constructed was the ‘City of deMille,’ the 24 square-mile tent city which held the cast, extras and crew of 2,500, along with 3,000 animals. It included a 120 foot-tall temple, five enormous sphinxes, a 100-foot Great Gate, statues of the Pharaoh, and a 750-foot long city wall which deMille insisted on as he wouldn’t work with painted backgrounds. A gigantic set had been erected as Ramses’ city by 500 carpenters and 600 painters and decorators. The director was in the middle of shooting his epic The Ten Commandments at the Guadalupe Nipomo Dunes in Central California. Stop filming and return to Los Angeles at once.” deMille a telegram: “You have lost your mind. In May 1923, Adolph Zukor, head of Paramount Pictures, sent director Cecil B. Out of the Vaults: “The Ten Commandments”, 1923
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