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- 1955
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 46 m
- 1955
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 46 m
Summary A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Written By: William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, Harold Jack Bloom
- 1955
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 46 m
- 1955
- Approved
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 46 m
Land of the Pharaohs
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Summary A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Written By: William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, Harold Jack Bloom
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
65
64% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
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A flop in its day despite France's rhapsodic reaction, but a movie I've always loved even before its knockout finale, which even detractors admit redeems a lot. [29 Jun 2007, p.10E]
They don't make 'em like Land of the Pharaohs anymore, but you wished they did.
Joan Collins and her pointy bras are a hubba-hubba hoot.
Howard Hawks’s only attempt at a wide-screen blockbuster (1955), much disparaged afterward by Hawks and many others, is actually fairly awesome if you can get beyond the clunky dialogue (some of it written by William Faulkner, as well as Harry Kurnitz) and the campy evilness of the Joan Collins character.
Although the script (by Faulkner, among others) gets stranded with the usual slightly wooden dialogue considered necessary for ancient times, the story moves along at a stately but never sluggish pace, and is scattered with lovely moments, most notably the grim finale when Collins gets her ironic come-uppance.
Hawks used more than 10,000 extras and handled the DeMille-type hordes well enough. The problems arose in the shooting of the small moments, the times when actors had to speak to each other.
Joan Collins is the only person in this film who seems to be enjoying the fact it's a big camp mess.
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