The Ten Commandmentswas noted for great fire and brimstone scenes (with remarkable special effects) and its huge cast of characters, with a very appropriate tagline: "THE GREATEST EPIC OF ALL!"The mid-1950s film - DeMille""s first widescreen film and his most expensive production, was also his greatest financial success.The street vendor catches the girl and hreatens to call the police.After paying off the irate proprietor with a buck to rescue her, she swoons into his arms.When he takes a good look at her, he impulsively decides that she has the kind of beauty that he is looking for - perfect for the starring role in his documentary movie...then he""s still there."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The film was filled with horror-film cliches, such as spooky music (screeching violins similar toPsycho""s and Bernard Hermann""s soundtrack), false alarms, crazed characters, red herrings, dead phone lines, sex before death, cat-and-mouse style killings, premonitions of terror, subjective ("point-of-view") camera work stalkings, a terrific rainstorm, the concluding boo-moment (similar toCarrie (1976)), a Friday the 13th full-moon, etc.Alice ""awoke"" and noticed Sheila having trouble during their shared nightmare:When Sheila smeared the red ink into her paper o try to clean it up, her hand plunged into her desk, and then when her hand was released, a mechanical, robotic claw-like hand burst from the hole in her desk and grabbed her face.[Another sequence at the CIA showed a tape of former African dictator Nykwana Wombosi (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) speaking to the press in Paris during his exile.