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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!
Original Release
06/24/1955
US Release
06/24/1955
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Jack Hawkins | Pharaoh Khufu |
Joan Collins | Princess Nellifer |
Dewey Martin | Senta, Vashtar's Son / Senta |
Alexis Minotis | Hamar, the High Priest / Hamar |
James Robertson Justice | Vashtar, the Master Architect / Vashtar |
Luisella Boni | Kyra |
Sydney Chaplin | Treneh, The Captain of the Guard / Treneh |
James Hayter | Mikka, Vashtar's Servant / Mikka |
Kerima | Queen Nailla |
Piero Giagnoni | Xenon |
Directors
Writers
William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, Harold Jack Bloom
Cast
Name | Character |
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Jack Hawkins | Pharaoh Khufu |
Joan Collins | Princess Nellifer |
Dewey Martin | Senta, Vashtar's Son / Senta |
Alexis Minotis | Hamar, the High Priest / Hamar |
James Robertson Justice | Vashtar, the Master Architect / Vashtar |
Luisella Boni | Kyra |
Sydney Chaplin | Treneh, The Captain of the Guard / Treneh |
James Hayter | Mikka, Vashtar's Servant / Mikka |
Kerima | Queen Nailla |
Piero Giagnoni | Xenon |
Ferruccio Amendola | Egyptian Architect |
Gianfranco Bellini | Captain of the Guard |
Valérie Camille | Dancer at the Party |
Diego Carlisi | Priest |
Carlo D'Angelo | Nabuna, Nellifer's Bodyguard |
Cyril Delevanti | Bit Part |
Vittoria Febbi | Mea |
David Muss | Dancer at the Party |
The Paul Steffan Dancers | Dancer at the Party |
Bud Thompson | Dancer at the Party |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Howard Hawks | Producer |
Chuck Hansen | Producer |
Arthur Siteman | Producer |