Besides major stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, Welles easily persuaded Joseph Cotten (as a police surgeon), Marlene Dietrich (in a supporting role cameo), Mercedes McCambridge (in male drag as a member of a Mexican motorcycle gang), and Keenan Wynn to appear in the film, with the added bonus of a small cameo by Zsa Zsa Gabor." When he offered: "Take my hand and I will spare your friends," Evelyn had no choice but to accept, knowing that she still had to be taken to Hamunaptra to perform the ritual to resurrect Anck-su-namun.I stepped out of the shower and started sweating again.Her distracted male partner - seedy, dense or simple-minded, corruptible small-town Florida lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt), was more interested in voyeuristically viewing a burning restaurant known as the Seawater Inn.She pulls on the beaded chain around her own neck while admitting that she really wants the horses"" coachman, and not the horses - she rationalizes that "he""d be miserable without the horses":Baron: So much heart and so little sense.