translate English to German: He was, however, adept at directing "thousands of extras," and many of his pictures include spectacular set pieces, including the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah , train wrecks in Union Pacific and The Greatest Show On Earth , and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madam Satan . He knew what the movie-going public wanted, and gave it to them over and over.
Wiederholt legte er sich mit den Gewerkschaft en an, die gegen die Arbeitsbedingungen bei seinen Dreharbeiten protestierten.