Trivia: What was the highest-grossing film of the 1950s?
Cinderella
The Ten Commandments
Ben-Hur
Rear Window
The correct answer is The Ten Commandments
So why is this answer correct? : Earning $85 million globally, director Cecil B. DeMille’s spectacular 1956 film starring Charlton Heston was not only the highest-grossing film of the decade, but also, believe it or not, a remake. This epic movie was DeMille’s last film, and a chance at a do-over — it was a remake of a silent film of the same name that he’d made in 1923.