After its first release, Paramount Studios was so concerned about the misanthropic film""s unrelenting cynicism, anti-Americanism, and poor box-office that they unsuccessfully changed its name and rebranded it as "The Big Carnival.Lee) hat went unrewarded.Now typecast, Robinson would reprise his star-making, tough-gangster role in a variety of gangster-crime films, such as William Wellman""sThe Hatchet Man (1933), John Ford""sThe Whole Town""s Talking (1935),The Last Gangster (1937),A Slight Case of Murder (1938),Brother Orchid (1940),Key Largo (1948), andHell on Frisco Bay (1955).Its sole losing nomination was for Best Picture (it lost to Laurence Olivier""sHamlet).With his award, Huston became the first o direct his own father to an Oscar, and it was the first instance of a son and father winning in the same year.It was a remake of DeMille""s own 1923 silent film of the same name, with its scope narrowed to focus on the previous film""s prologue to solely concentrate on the character of Moses.