The Ten Commandments (1956) Poster

John Derek: Joshua

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  • Joshua : Here! Water lily!

    Lilia : My name is Lilia.

    Joshua : To me you are a lily, and I want water.

    Lilia : Joshua. Joshua, I thought you'd never come down.

    Joshua : Water before love, my girl.

    Lilia : Does it take the whole Nile to quench your thirst?

    Joshua : No, just your lips.

    Lilia : Be careful, my love. Dathan's eyes can see through stone.

    Joshua : Dathan is a vulture, feeding on the flesh of his own people.

    Lilia : When he looks at me, I am afraid.

    Joshua : If he touches you, I'll strangle him with his own whip!

    Lilia : And bring death to a thousand of us?

    Joshua : Is life in bondage better than death?

  • Joshua : Praise God, I have found you.

    Moses : Joshua? We thought you dead.

    Joshua : In the copper mines of Geber, the living are dead.

    Moses : Sephora! Bring water! How did you find me?

    Joshua : A merchant buying copper saw you in the tent of Jethro.

    Moses : [Moses softly tapped Josha's back]  Here you, too, will find peace.

    Joshua : [a stunned look came over Joshua's face, as he almost crossed his eyes]  Peace? How can you find peace or want it when Rameses builds cities mortared with the blood of our people?

  • Joshua : They told me you were dead.

    Lilia : To all I loved, Joshua, I am dead.

    Joshua : Dathan?

    Lilia : Yes. Dathan.

    Joshua : Of your own free will?

    Lilia : My own free will.

    Joshua : You are no man's slave! The hour of deliverance has come!

    Lilia : Not for me, Joshua.

  • Joshua : Let the old woman loose!

    Egyptian guard : She'll stay where she is, and you'll die in the lion pit!

    Lilia : Joshua!

    Yochabel : Run to the prince and beg mercy!

    Lilia : Mercy from Rameses?

    Yochabel : No. From Prince Moses, there on the pavilion.

  • Lilia : Joshua. We must have hope. God will send us the deliverer.

    Joshua : Hope. On the heels of every hope walks Dathan.

  • Joshua : God of Abraham, four hundred years we have waited.

    Moses : Pharaoh's soldiers won't wait so long.

    Joshua : The Almighty has heard our cries from bondage. You are the Chosen One!

    Moses : I know nothing of your god.

    Joshua : He knows you, Moses. He has brought you to us. You cannot turn your back upon us. You will deliver us!

  • Lilia : Joshua!

    Joshua : Run, Lilia, run! The way is clear. The master builder will not follow.

    Baka : Neither will you, stonecutter.

    [Joshua tried to escape, running backwards, but was captured by Baka's guards] 

    Baka : Bind him between the columns! See that his arms are tightly stretched!

    Egyptian guard : He'll cut him to pieces.

    Baka : Now go after the girl. Don't come back without her.

    Egyptian guard : We'll find her.

    Baka : You foolish, stupid man. I would have kept her only a short while. She would have returned to you, shall we say, more worthy. Now to whom shall I return Lilia? You will not be there, Joshua.

    [saying this, Baka starts to lash Joshua] 

    Baka : You've seen me drive my chariot. I can flick a fly from my horse's ear without breaking the rhythm of his stride. You've seen me use my whip.

    [Baka lashed Joshua again] 

    Baka : You make no outcry, Joshua, but you will. You will cry for the mercy of death.

    Joshua : One day you will listen to the cry of slaves.

    Baka : This is not that day, Joshua.

    [Baka lashed another stripe on Joshua] 

    Baka : You hold your tongue almost as well as I hold my temper. It's a pity to kill so strong a stonecutter.

    Moses : [Moses caught Baka's whip, pulled it, and turned Baka around]  Death will bring death, Baka!

    Baka : Who are you?

    Moses : One who asks what right you have to kill a slave.

    Baka : The right of a master to kill you or any slave.

    Moses : Then kill me, master butcher!

    [Moses then caught and used Baka's whip, choking Baka to death] 

    Baka : Moses!

    [Baka's last line] 

  • Moses : You know it is death to strike an Egyptian?

    Joshua : I know it.

    Moses : Yet you struck him. Why?

    Joshua : To save the old woman.

    Moses : What is she to you?

    Joshua : An old woman.

    [Joshua was defending his Hebrew race] 

    Egyptian guard : Lord Prince, send him to his death!

    Moses : The man has courage. You do not speak like a slave.

    Joshua : God made men. Men made slaves.

    Moses : Which god?

    Joshua : The God of Abraham. The Almighty God!

    Moses : If your God is Almighty, why does He leave you in bondage?

    Joshua : He will choose the hour of our freedom and the man who will deliver us!

  • Baka : They use the old ones to do the work of greasing the stones, Lord Prince. If they are killed, it is no loss.

    Moses : Are you a master builder or a master butcher?

    Baka : If we stop moving stones for every grease woman who falls, the city would never rise.

    Overseer : If the slaves are not driven, they will not work.

    Joshua : If their work lags, it is because they are not fed.

    Moses : You look strong enough.

    Joshua : I am a stonecutter. The Pharaohs likes their images cut deep.

  • Lilia : [singing]  Death cometh to me, to set me free, death cometh to me.

    Joshua : No, Lilia. Death will not come to you.

    Lilia : Joshua! Joshua, you risk your life in coming here. You are firstborn.

    Joshua : So are you. I bring lamb's blood to mark the door posts and lintel... that the Angel of Death may pass you by.

    Lilia : Joshua, it is enough that you have come to me. I am outcast among our people. Do not save me from death, Joshua. Save me from life!

    Joshua : Tomorrow will bring a new world for us, Lilia!

  • Joshua : Did He speak?

    Moses : He revealed His word to my mind. And the word was God.

    Joshua : Did He speak as a man?

    Moses : He is not flesh but spirit... the light of eternal mind...

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