Cecil B. DeMille Christian and Jewish heritage to convey a message of tolerance. "The Crusades" was the first film to show accord between Christians and Muslims. DeMille received more than a dozen awards from Jewish religious and cultural groups, including B’nai B’rith. In 1954, he was seeking approval for a lavish remake of his 1923 silent film "The Ten Commandments". He went before the Paramount board of directors, which was mostly Jewish-American. The members rejected his proposal, even though his last two films, "Samson and Delilah" and "The Greatest Show on Earth", had been record-breaking hits. Adolph Zukor, the chairman of the board,
The Silent House (2010 film) a smart, scary film and a technical tour de force with its own skin-crawling atmosphere of fear." The film was selected as the Uruguayan entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. Project Deadpost website gave the film a score of 90% calling it an "ultra-low budget, brilliant, scary little film from Uruguay that outdoes many big budget contenders". The Silent House (2010 film) The Silent House () is a 2010 Uruguayan horror film directed by Gustavo Hernández. The film is supposedly inspired by real events that took