Seething jealousy arose within Sethi""s natural son, Rameses (Yul Brynner), stimulated even further by Prince Moses"" triumphant return as an Army General ("Commander of the Southern Host") from the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia.After the financial and critical success ofRio Grande (1950)for the studio, the third of Ford""s ""cavalry rilogy,"" he convinced Republic Pictures to support him for his next riskier film - an Irish "Taming of the Shrew" tale that was remarkably similar in plot.He only found the frozen base and abandoned structural remains of the Alkali Lake Industrial Complex (of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources)." The Sheik pointed out the incriminating, guilty-looking fact that the Boy""s box of chocolates, marked $4 dollars, matched he amount of the pawned objects - this was enough solid proof or circumstantial evidence that the Boy was the thief.Director Mervyn LeRoy (who had directed the early great gangster filmLittle Caesar (1930)), delivered this pure and straight-forward film to expectant audiences.