DeMille""s film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Sound Recording, Best Assistant Director, and Best Film Editing (a new category) - it won a single Oscar for Best Cinematography (Victor Milner).He sends his recuperated patient forth on a long ocean voyage, urged by Lisa""s suggestion:If old Walt didn""t have you in mind when he wrote his, he had lots of others like you.Lake, was a Cain and Abel brother-revenge story as well as a serious tale about a man on a vindictive quest (similar to John Ford""s classic westernThe Searchers (1956)).""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).This was his final American film.He later returned to Sweden to act, most notably in Bergman""s classicWild Strawberries (1957)as lead character Professor Isak Borg, an elderly professor facing his mortality and revisiting his past.