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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: June 24, 1955 |
Starring:
Alexis Minotis, Dewey Martin, Jack Hawkins, James Hayter, James Robertson Justice, Joan Collins, Kerima, Luisella Boni, Piero Giagnoni, Sydney Chaplin
Summary:
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.
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A flop in its day despite France's rhapsodic reaction, but a movie I've always loved even before its knockout finale, which even detractors admit redeems a lot. [29 Jun 2007, p.10E]
This lavish historical epic has plenty of campy treasure in it. [07 Aug 2013]
Howard Hawks admitted that he and co-scenarist William Faulkner never got the hang of how ancient Egyptians probably talked, but he produced a spectacular epic. [05 Oct 2001]
Although the script (by Faulkner, among others) gets stranded with the usual slightly wooden dialogue considered necessary for ancient times, the story moves along at a stately but never sluggish pace, and is scattered with lovely moments, most notably the grim finale when Collins gets her ironic come-uppance.
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