Have you ever seen Demille's earlier, silent Ten Commandments?

No! The Somerville screened it last year, but I was unable to go. I knew it had a modern-day narrative, but nobody mentioned the weirder-than-describable anti-immigration subtext.

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.

I'm sorry. Knowing nothing else about the movie, I agree that would have been amazing.