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Land of the Pharaohs(Movie, 1955)

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| 1h 45min | Genres: Drama, History
Land of the PharaohsRating: 3.1/5 (with 3030 votes)
Land of the Pharaohs is a 1955 American epic historical drama film in CinemaScope and WarnerColor from Warner Brothers, 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. ()
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About Land of the Pharaohs

In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life." To this end he enlists the aid of Vashtar, an architect whose people are enslaved in Egypt. The deal: build a robbery-proof tomb and the enslaved people will be freed. During the years that the pyramid is being built a Cyprian princess becomes the pharaoh's second wife, and she plots to prevent Khufu from taking his treasure with him when he dies .. as well as helping him make the journey early.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: Egypt
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 12 languages: Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 07/24/1955
Appearing Characters: Khufu
Producer: Howard Hawks
Film Editor: Rudi Fehr
Director of Photography: Lee Garmes, Russell Harlan
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Porno para Todos!"
"Στην Κοιλάδα των Βασιλέων"
Budget: 2,900,000 USD

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