Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

Directed by

Paul Helmick, Howard Hawks

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 107 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is a fictional story about the construction of the Great Pyramid in ancient Egypt. It focuses on Pharaoh Khufu and his plans for his tomb, as well as his relationship with one of his wives.

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What happens

Land of the Pharaohs is a 1955 American epic historical drama film in CinemaScope and WarnerColor from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced and directed by Howard Hawks. The cast was headed by Jack Hawkins as Pharaoh Khufu and Joan Collins as one of his wives, Nellifer. The film is a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid. Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner was one of the film's three credited screenwriters. Land of the Pharaohs had a cast of thousands – Warners' press office claimed there were 9,787 extras in one scene – and was one of Hollywood's largest-scale, ancient world epics, made in the same spirit as The Robe, The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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