THE EGYPTIAN [NTSC-ALL Regions / IMPORT] (1954)
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Movie Reviews of THE EGYPTIAN [NTSC-ALL Regions / IMPORT] (1954)
Movie Review: Love the Wide screen but not the quality.
Summary: 3 Stars
I still hold this as one of my best copies of this movie in wide screen. But the captions do not clear and I have seen sharper presentations broadcasted over Direct tv. A good digital copy in widescreen is still something that I hunt for.Movie Review: Quality Control Lacking
Summary: 3 Stars
Ths DVD copy was not great quality. It stopped after 3/4 of movie and would not regain momentum. Too bad, it really is a great movie.Movie Review: Can you say tripe?
Summary: 2 Stars
A funny thing happened on my way to becoming a physician. I met a man under a rock...
This film takes a lot of concentration to watch. I am not sure how they talked known actors into performing in this film. The setting looks like they made the film in a basement. They indiscriminately mix the names of gods and pharos to whatever sounds good for a 1950's Hollywood movie. The dialog seems to have come from one of those magic 8 balls. It is truly a large land where no two accents are alike. And cute cuddly Ustinov distracts for the non-existent plot. At least John Carradine played himself. Victor Mature added some dignity to the movie as HoreMheb.
If you are really interested in Egyptian films from this era try "Land of the Pharaohs" (1955)
And if you want to read about Akhenaton try "Oedipus and Akhnaton Myth and History" by Immanuel Velikovsky
Land of the Pharaohs
Oedipus and Akhnaton - Myth and History - The tragic events in the life of the royal house of hundred-gated Thebes
Movie Review: Video quality is decent and subtitles CANNOT be turned off!
Summary: 2 Stars
The film is an excellent one and as everyone has already stated it should be offically released with high quality. That being said this particular foreign transfer of this film is watchable and decent but certainly no where near the original spectatular print that could be released and that's why I only gave two stars. I've got a new Sony 500 BluRay player and trust me as another poster already stated there is NO WAY to turn of the extremely distracting Korean subtitles either via the Sony remote or via the softwhere menu on the disc itself. If someone has figured a way to do it please post it! Meanwhile, having this is better than nothing I guess. I just wish that a lot of excellent epics like this would be hitting BluRay especially now that the format war is over. Most films today are junk in my opinion but we've got a wealth of older titles that could and should be hitting the shelves in BluRay like this one . . . but they're not so far. Hopefully things will pick up.Movie Review: The Egyptian
Summary: 2 Stars
I realize that this DVD is a foreign made DVD and it did state that it had Korean subtitles, but I didn't realize that you CAN'T turn the thing off to "NO" subtitle in the menu. It says you can, I switch the thing on "off" but the subtitles won't go away. It's very disturbing to try and watch this thing with the bright bold subtitles flashing on the bottom of the screen.
The movie itself is an old favorite of mine and the movie quality was good I just don't apprectiate not have the choice of turning of the subtitles.
Regina Maxim