Basil Rathbone, who plays Caiaphas in this, took a turn as Pontius Pilate in the 1935 production from RKO, The Last Days of Pompeii.
Within the Eastern Christian tradition, Claudia Procles is considered a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. In the 3rd century, Origen suggested in his Homilies on Matthew that she had become a Christian. Western Christian tradition considers her dream sent by the devil in an attempt to thwart the salvation that was going to result from Christ's death.