If It Takes 40 Years, Hell Get Lost City On Film: ; 'Ten Commandments' Sparks Unslakable Thirst for Movie Buff

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GUADALUPE, Calif. - Strong winds scour the dunes that hide a curious history. Nails and fragments of concrete are scattered everywhere. Steel cables, carved pieces of wood and slabs of painted plaster poke out of the ground, ghosts rising from the grave.

In 1923, Cecil B. DeMille came to the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes on California's Central Coast and built a movie set that still captures the imagination - a colossal Egyptian dreamscape for the silent- movie version of "The Ten Commandments."

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If It Takes 40 Years, Hell Get Lost City On Film: ; 'Ten Commandments' Sparks Unslakable Thirst for Movie Buff

Under the direction of French artist Paul Iribe, a founder of the Art Deco movement, 1,600 craftsmen built a temple 800 feet wide and 120 feet tall flanked by four 40-ton statues of the Pharaoh Ramses II. Twenty-one giant plaster sphinxes lined a path to the temple's gates. A t...

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