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 O""Connells, not knowing that son Alex had quit college, felt estranged from him, remarking: "We can""t let Alex become some stranger in pictures on our mantle.Also, it paved the way for extended dance sequences in Gene Kelly""s and Stanley Donen""s classicSingin"" in the Rain (1950), and it was often referenced inA Chorus Line.Dick and Linda arranged an 8 pm double-dinner-date for him with Linda""s photographer""s assistant Sharon Lake (Jennifer Salt), who had starred in a "very arty" 16 mm underground film - that was titled "Gang Bang.The children were successfully rescued by Storm and Nightcrawler.In the laboratory, Wolverine remembered his past (through flashbacks) when X-rays were taken of his bone structure as adamantium (liquid metal) was painfully and torturously applied o his skeleton (to make him indestructible), and he was repeatedly dunked under water.