After telepathically seeing into her mind, Charles realized that Shaw intended to place Russian missiles in Cuba, causing global nuclear annihiliation (and WWIII) by the two super-powers.They are actors in the roles.] Speaking about his successful marriage, the balding husband talks directly into the camera with his white haired wife next to him:I was sitting with my friend Arthur Kornblum, in a restaurant, it was a Horn and Hardart Cafeteria, and this beautiful girl walked in - [he gestures toward his wife] - and I turned to Arthur and I said, "Arthur, you see that girl? I""m going to marry her."Anubis gave the Scorpion King command of his army, and like an evil flood, they washed away all that lay before them.The most celebrated segments in the film are a marathon, prolonged erotic kissing scene (that circumvented the ""three-second"" censor""s restrictions), a swooping camera crane shot down to an extreme closeup of the wine-cellar key held in Bergman""s hand (posters for the film always included a key motif), the wine-cellar sequence, and the suspenseful final scene with masterful inter-cutting.The outdoor set for the Babylonian sequences was the largest ever created for a Hollywood film up to its time, and its crowd shots with 16,000 extras were also some of the greatest in cinematic history.