" Jones was instructed to report on straight news, not as a correspondent but as a true news reporter.Appointed as an army general and chief supervisory architect, Moses helped in the construction of the giant pyramids for Sethi""s Jubilee, fell in love with Princess Nefretiri (Anne Baxter), and was hated by his half-brother - Sethi""s natural son, Rameses (Yul Brynner).And it was these fragile white fingers that penned the nightmare.Mary pricks herself while sewing, drawing blood and becoming squeamish at the sight.Percy questions why Mary ended her story prematurely: "I do think it a shame, Mary, to end your story quite so suddenly.When Jack deciphered a clue on the map ("Up is down") and thePearlwas overturned by rocking it upside down, they returned to the real world at sunrise (marked by a green flash).The film-with-a-message exhibits the influence of historical events occurring during its time frame of the burgeoning Industrial Revolution, including a time of economic misery and the rise of fascism in a pre-Hitler Weimar Republic Germany following the war, the rise of the American labor movement and unions during the 1920s due to oppressive working conditions, muckraking journalists (such as Jacob Riis), the contrast of poverty with the upper-crust classes of the Roaring 20s, the rise of immigration into the US and exploitation of workers (i.