 For the later version, DeMille dropped the modern-day storyline in favor of profiling more of Moses' early life.In 2006, the 1923 film was released on DVD as an extra feature on the 50th Anniversary DVD release of the 1956 film.In the DVD commentary with Katherine Orrison included with the 1923 film, she states that DeMille refilmed several sequences nearly shot-for-shot for the new version, and also had set pieces constructed for the later film that were near-duplicates of what he had used in 1923.