I""ll try anything once....Listen, Holly, you, uh, I don""t know, want to take a walk with me?Holly: What for?Kit: Aw, I got some stuff to say.]The many taglines on the film""s posters exclaimed:"EAST OF EDEN is a story of explosive passions and Elia Kazan has made it into a picture of staggering power.Evelyn translated his final words of revenge: "Death is only the beginning."As Beni was taking another load of treasures out, he accidentally triggered an ancient booby trap (a staff sticking out of a wall), causing Hamunaptra to begin collapsing and crumbling.It was also a celebration of life in the 1980s (following the Reagan Presidency), after so much hardship in the decades that had come before (marred by the Watergate affair, the many assassinations in the 1960s, and the drawn-out Vietnam War).