Actor: Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin
Director: Howard Hawks
Genre: Action
Year: 1955
Studio: Warner Bros
Length: 104
Released: 6/27/2023
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: Blu-ray
Misc/Special Features: Blu-ray
Language: English
Subtitles : N/A
DESCRIPTION:
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 it's 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!
