Land of the Pharaohs
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Movie Reviews of Land of the Pharaohs
Movie Review: This thing is just down right fun to watch
Summary: 4 Stars
Before picking on this as a Hollywood type of film, you haven't seen "The Egyptian" (1954) and you don't want to see that movie.
This movie is not a Cecil B. DeMille movie. Yet it has that big 1950' 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 as a seductress that gets what she wants (literally). Jack Hawkins is my idea of a real Pharaoh Khefu. It was very impressive first seen as a child. I love the engineering solution to sealing the passages scenes. They actually made the film in Egypt.
The Egyptian (Import) ~ Jean Simmons
Movie Review: Pharaohnic Silliness...but wonderfully done
Summary: 4 Stars
Land of the Pharaohs is a much-maligned epic from the Fifties produced and directed by Howard Hawks. The script is silly, the acting over the top, Dimitri Tiomkin's score unrelenting, yet...yet it does have a certain majesty and creates an atmosphere of early Egypt that is striking in its primitive starkness. Beautifully photographed and staged, this is a near miss but highly recommended to those who loved the great old spectacles from the Fifties.
One complaint: It has been packaged a a "camp classic" with a lurid Joan Collins on the case cover. I think it deserves more respect than that and perhaps someone will do a complete restoration sometime complete with footage from the authentic Egyption locations.
Movie Review: William Faulkner in the credits! Joan Collins, 20 yrs. old. Hubba-Hubba!
Summary: 4 Stars
What a treat for lusty snobs. A script by William Faulkner and a lubricious 20 year old Joan Collins as leading lady.
This may not be history, but it would be if history hand any say in it. I love the way that the denouement revolves around Jewish craftiness represented by James Robertson Justice. (He doesn't LOOK Jewish.)
Enjoy! The scuttlebutt is the Joan and the actor who played her regicide, (or, more exactly, Pharoahcide), co-conspirator were having such vigorous amorous dalliances off-camera, and replenishing their energies with such gargantuan feasts, that they both become visibly fat and had to be put on diets.
Movie Review: Stone and Chisel epic
Summary: 4 Stars
This new to DVD version of this Howard Hawks cracker is notable for two things - apart from the quality of the print, which is really very good. The first is the fact that it was shot on location in Egypt - the monuments you see are the monuments you can visit today - the second is for Joan Collins, who is excellent as Jack Hawkins' scheming wife. Couple these facts with James Robertson Justice (remember him as Sir Lancelot Spratt in the Dirk Bogarde 'doctor' films?) as frankly the most un-servile slave you've ever seen and a cracking climax, you have a recipe for a great evening's entertainment.Movie Review: Hokey - Cheesy - Classic 50's B Movie - Must See
Summary: 4 Stars
I love this stupid movie. It sticks in your mind like chewing gum even after the little bit of flavor is gone. The supporting actors in this are so sincere and the moral message so great that it overcomes most of the real shortcomings like poor writing, stiff acting by some and cheesy set budgets when compared to CLEOPATRA w/ Liz taylor. Joan Collins as an Egyptian Slave Girl cum Queen is pricelessly kitchy. And at $[...] well worth the hoot.Land of the Pharaohs