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Box office. $2.7 million (U.S.) [4] 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 ...
A historical adventure film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Jack Hawkins as a greedy pharaoh and Joan Collins as his scheming wife. The film depicts the construction of a pyramid and the plot to prevent the pharaoh from taking his treasure with him to the afterlife.
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- Adventure, Drama, History
- Howard Hawks
- 1955-06-24
Watch or download this classic movie about a tyrannical Pharaoh who orders a grand pyramid to be built by his slaves. The film features Joan Collins, Jack Hawkins and a young Cecil B. DeMille as a priest.
Director Howard Hawks, who worked brilliantly in practically every movie genre, shows his mastery of the large-scale epic with this gigantic production filme...
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Obsessed with his fate in the afterlife, the egotistical Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) recruits oppressed architect Vashtar (James Robertson Justice) and forces him to ...
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- Jack Hawkins
- Howard Hawks
- History, Drama
The New York Times critic A. H. Weiler called Land of the Pharaohs "impressively sweeping in its eye-filling pageantry" and praised the production design, including the replicas of the pharaoh's recently discovered solar boats. At the same time, Weiler noted "little distinction in the performances of the principals."
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Land of the Pharaohs is directed by Howard Hawks and collectively written by Harold Jack Bloom, William Faulkner and Harry Kurnitz. It stars Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, James Robertson Justice, Dewey Martin and Alex Minotis. Music is by Dimitri Tiomkin and cinematography by Lee Garmes and Russell Harlan.
