Land of the Pharaohs
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Released
- 1955
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 1955
Storyline
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Top credits
Jack Hawkins — Pharaoh Khufu
Joan Collins — Princess Nellifer
Dewey Martin — Senta, Vashtar's Son
Alexis Minotis — Hamar, the High Priest
Did you know
• The movie was Producer and Director Howard Hawks' first commercial failure. It caused him to take a break from directing and travel through Europe for a few years. His next movie, Rio Bravo (1959), was the longest break between two movies in his career.
• Producer and Director Howard Hawks had between three thousand and ten thousand extras working each day during the fifty-plus day shooting schedule. The government supplied those extras, half of whom were soldiers in the Egyptian Army.
• According to the liner notes of the soundtrack CD, the lyrics of most of the choruses heard throughout this movie, often thought to be Asian, Semitic or Egyptian in origin, are actually gibberish that Composer Dimitri Tiomkin concocted to evoke the period and sound like ancient Egyptian, and are actually meaningless.
User reviews
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