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 family was held together by a stern, resourceful, untiring, protective and loving matriarch, Marta "Mama" Hanson (Irene Dunne at age 50), and her blustering, hard-working carpenter husband Lars "Papa" Hanson (Philip Dorn).Father: Then the war is here.Son: Yes, dad, and I""m going to be one of the first to enlist.Annabelle Lee: (after kissing her patriotic, dutiful brother and father goodbye) (To Johnnie) Aren""t you going to enlist?At the door after they have left, a worried Annabelle Lee twists the ends of her white bodice collar.The officer was left impaled or pinned there.Clay and Jenna fled upstairs, just before Trent discovered Bree""s corpse in the bathroom.In terror, all hree scrambled outside and as they were hijacking the officer""s car, Jason tossed Bree""s body from the second floor into the vehicle""s windshield.When a rock crashes through their front window, Stark is motivated even more to run: "I""m gonna run even if I don""t get a single vote.