If you can""t make the part yourself, then you can""t play it.During asixthstage performance, this time a rehearsal, Michael was playing the role of a dying Count Tolstoy, propped up with a cane and holding his script.Sexually-suggestive costumes adorn most of the female characters.The film""s screenplay by Waldemar Young and Vincent Lawrence was based on an adaptation of historical material by Barlett Cormack.Distraught, she falls to her knees next to her wounded, but conscious husband and protectively hugs him.Edmund was able to kill off the misty green vision of the White Witch (promising: "I can make you my king"), at the same time that Eustace placed he 7th sword on the pile of other crossed swords.The central role of Moses was assigned to Charlton Heston, who went on to appear in many other Biblical or historical epics, such asThe Buccaneer (1958),Ben-Hur (1959), El-Cid (1961), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).