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Release Date: 1955

Cast: James Robertson Justice, Alexis Minotis, Jack Hawkins, Piero Giagnoni, Joan Collins, Kerima, Sydney Chaplin, James Hayter, Dewey Martin

Categories: Movies, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Epic, Historical Film, Drama Film, Historical Epic

Land of the Pharaohs is a 1955 CinemaScope epic film made by the Continental Company, Ltd and presented by Warner Bros. It was directed and produced by Howard Hawks from a screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom, Harry Kurnitz, and the novelist William Faulkner. The film score was by Dimitri Tiomkin. The film starred Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins, with Dewey Martin, James Robertson Justice, Kerima, and Alexis Minotis. It is a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, remembered in Greek as "Cheops". Collins, just 22 during production, played a beautiful greedy woman, a role... MORE

Land of the Pharaohs is a 1955 CinemaScope epic film made by the Continental Company, Ltd and presented by Warner Bros. It was directed and produced by Howard Hawks from a screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom, Harry Kurnitz, and the novelist William Faulkner. The film score was by Dimitri Tiomkin. The film starred Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins, with Dewey Martin, James Robertson Justice, Kerima, and Alexis Minotis. It is a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, remembered in Greek as "Cheops". Collins, just 22 during production, played a beautiful greedy woman, a role she would repeat many times over a very long film and television career. It literally had a cast of thousands (Warner Bros. claimed there were 9,787 extras in one scene) and was one of Hollywood's largest-scale, ancient world epics, in the spirit of The Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, and others. The film was shot on location in Egypt and in Rome's Titanus studios. In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it with him into the "second life". Dissatisfied with his own architects' offerings, he enlists the aid of Vashtar (James Robertson LESS