Have you ever seen Demille's earlier, silent Ten Commandments? It's basically DeMille trying to be Griffith, with bonus anti-Chinese immigration subtext, and it's even weirder than that makes it sound. Let's just say I really thought the script was setting up somebody in the modern story to catch leprosy-as-a-metaphor-for-syphillis, and I'm still disappointed that he didn't.
Wow. I didn't know this existed, but I'm definitely going to have to look it up.
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Wow. I didn't know this existed, but I'm definitely going to have to look it up.