Land Of The Pharaohs

Starring: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, et al.

Director Howard Hawks, who worked brilliantly in virtually every 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-scaled 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 a beautiful queen (Joan Collins) whose greed leads to murder- and a stunning revenge!

• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: English
• UPC: 810134941113
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Warner Bros
• Director: Howard Hawks
• Starring: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, James Robertson Justice, Alexis Minotis, Sydney Chaplin
• Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This thing is just downright fun to watch.

Before picking this as a Hollywood-type film, you have not seen “The Egyptian” (1954), and you do not want to see that movie. This movie is not a Cecil B. DeMille movie. Yet it has that big 1950s epic feel. I was surprised to find that William Faulkner wrote most of it. But this movie is fun to watch, and I believe Joan Collins is a seductress who gets what she wants (literally). Jack Hawkins is my idea of a real Pharaoh Khefu. It was very impressive as I first saw it as a child. I love the engineering solution to sealing the passages scenes. They made the film in Egypt. I was not too young to overlook the scantily clad Joan Collins.