Land of the Pharaohs
Thousands of extras, magnificently detailed sets and vast desert vistas fill the screen and astonish the eye.
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DVD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.40:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 30, 2013
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins & Dewey Martin | |
Performer: | James Robertson Justice & Sydney Chaplin | |
Featured: | Alexis Minotis | |
Directed by | Howard Hawks | |
Screenwriting by | William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz & Harold Jack Bloom | |
Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
Cinematography by | Lee Garmes | |
Art Direction by | Alexandre Trauner | |
Produced by | Howard Hawks |
Entertainment Reviews:
Fairly awesome if you can get beyond the clunky dialogue.
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Chicago Reader
A cracking script and a bittersweet ironic ending satisfy those wanting their drama on an epic scale.
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Film4
William Faulkner shared in writing this better-than-average widescreen spectacle drama, with ancient Egypt as its locale.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 2/4 --
Much of the picture concerned itself with the building of the pyramid, not an exceptionally exciting event to watch.
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TV Guide
Rating: 5/10 --
No wars; no battles; one dinky sword fight. But much pageantry.
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Movie Metropolis
Intelligent epic mixes spectacle and social commentary.
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Classic Film and Television
Hawks forgoes any of those monstrous epic battle scenes, but as always most of his characters are made of shades of gray, which makes for fascinating confrontations throughout.
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Combustible Celluloid
Description by OLDIES.com:
Director Howard Hawks, who worked brilliantly in practically every movie genre, shows his mastery of the large-scale epic with this gigantic production filmed on location in Egypt. Thousands of extras (9,787 in one scene alone!), magnificently detailed sets (including the pyramid's inner labyrinth, booby-trapped so no one can learn its secrets and live) and vast desert vistas fill the screen and astonish the eye. There are also human-scale stories. Of the Pharoah (Jack Hawkins) who orders the pyramid as his tomb, dooming untold numbers to unending toil. Of the architect (James Robertson Justice) designing it to earn his people's freedom. Of the slaves constructing it of blood and sinew. And of the beautiful queen (Joan Collins) whose greed leads to murder - and a stunning revenge!
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- Sales Rank: 29,233
- UPC: 883316732878
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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