On a nearby street, two undercover police officers trailed Otis (Ned Beatty), crime boss Lex Luthor""s (Gene Hackman) incompetent, buffoonish right-hand man, into Metropolis"" main train station, where he evaded them by entering an indentation/door in the track wall to approach Luthor""s underground Lair 200 feet below Park Avenue (a half-flooded, subterranean train station), but the pursuing officer lost his life when Luthor reversed the piston-driven indentation and pushed him into the path of an oncoming train.Heston) in an ark of bulrushes.The drifting basket was found by the Pharaoh""s daughter Bithiah (Nina Foch), a childless widow.Bithiah thought that her prayers had been answered: ("The answer to my prayers...I prayed for a son").The only other royal personage to witness Bithiah""s rescue of the child was her reacherous servant Memnet (Judith Anderson), who recognized that he swaddling cloth around the child indicated its Hebrew origin: ("It is the Levite cloth of a Hebrew slave").""Townsend"" reads a list of his past movements as George Kaplan - he Sherwin Hotel (Pittsburgh), the Benjamin Franklin Hotel (Philadelphia), he Statler Hotel (Boston), the Whittier (Detroit), and then to the Plaza Hotel (presently registered in Room #796, in New York).It was filmed in his favorite locale - Monument Valley in northern Arizona, in only forty-five days.The film""s title was not chosen in honor of any of the central characters or the shoot-out, but after the name of Earp""s civilizing, female acquaintance in the own of Tombstone.The majestic, rolling green-hilled pastures of the area (with white picket fences) were lovingly viewed as his train pulled into he station at Ardmore.