Cecil Blount DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson

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Cecil Blount DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson The Ten Commandments (1923)

If anybody goes, it will be me."
"Mary and I are going to be married right now! And we're going to live our own life, in our own heathen way!"
"You've been wonderful, Johnny! And when you fall in love some day—promise you won't forget me."
"Johnny, we're going to LIVE! We'll break all ten of your old Commandments, and we'll finish rich and powerful—with the world at our feet!"
"You'll keep your Ten Commandments, Johnny, and you'll finish just where you are—a poor carpenter!"
"I guess being a carpenter is just about all I'm good for!"
"John dear—some mighty fine men have been carpenters!"
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Cecil Blount DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson The Ten Commandments (1923)

At the end of Three Years—Dan has become the most successful young building contractor in the state.
But for every building hu puts up—he tears down a part of his soul.
While John, still true to his code, is just a Carpenter.
"This time, we're going to take a chance on a leaner 'mix'—one of cement to twelve of sand and rock. With a broad-minded building inspector like yourself on the job—it's a cinch!"
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Cecil Blount DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson The Ten Commandments (1923)

McTavish, Dan's Mother!"
"Thank God, you're come! That 'angel' brother of yours, is raising hell!"
"You can't get away with it, Dan! You're stealing thousands on your concrete—and something's going to smash!"
"Don' be a fool, Mary! I can't make enough money, without cutting on some of the specifications.
And Brother John isn't interested in concrete—he's trying to ruin me—to get you!"
"Danny, you've got to make this concrete right! You can't break every law of God and Man and get away with it!"
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