The Ten Commandments

Genre: Historical drama/spectacle
Date: 1956
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Alfalfa portrays: A slave who is among those being freed by Moses.
Alfalfa's screen time: 8 seconds
Lines of dialogue spoken by Alfalfa: 2

Alfalfa [smiling excitedly, looking back at his wife]: Do you hear that? Do you hear that?

Then a woman, presumably a midwife, pokes her head out from inside the wagon and tells Alfalfa that he has a "strong new son".



Above, below: Alfalfa hears the news that he is a new father.
Click all three images to see full view.



This small role, a walk-on really, was another in a series of similar lightning-fast appearances by Alfalfa in the mid-fifties, along with "Between Heaven and Hell" and "Not As a Stranger". Certainly, Alfalfa would not have wanted these types of jobs to dominate the balance of his grownup career. But these character-actor roles were obviously part of a plan by Alfalfa to shed, once and for all, the remaining vestiges of his Little Rascals persona. Notwithstanding, right around the release of "The Ten Commandments", he starred in "Motorcycle Gang", in which he had a prominent role throughout the film as a goofy, wisecracking member of a cycle club.

Henry Wilcoxon appeared in "The Ten Commandments" as Pintaur. In "Johnny Doughboy", fourteen years prior, he portrayed the erudite playwright on whom the Jane Winters character developed a teenage crush. "Doughboy" featured Alfalfa and Spanky (in his last feature film role) as members of the "Twenty-Minus Club", an assemblage of aging child stars.

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