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Land of the Pharaohs

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Land of the Pharaohs
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NR,1hr 46min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1955
Director:
Howard Hawks
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin  ...more
Synopsis: "Nobody knew how a Pharaoh talked!" That's how producer/director Howard Hawks explained some of the sillier dialogue exchanges in the William Faulkner-Harry Kurnitz-Harold Jack Bloom script for Hawks' Land of the Pharaohs. Extravagantly produced with a cast of seeming millions (actually there were some 10,000 extras), the film speculates on the circumstances surrounding the construction of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Jack Hawkins plays the Pharaoh, who orders enslaved architect James Robertson Justice ... Full Synopsis
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Mike Cummings, AMG Review
This motion picture lodges in film history as one of the grandiose historical epics created between 1950 and 1960 to lure moviegoers away from a new form of entertainment -- television. Like other epics of that period, Land of the Pharaohs resorts to pomp and pageantry to lure audiences back to the silver screen. For example, the film opens with a spectacular cavalcade in which Pharaoh Khufu (also ... Full Review
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Jack Hawkins
Pharaoh Cheops
Joan Collins
Princess Nellifer
Dewey Martin
Senta
Alexis Minotis
Hamar
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