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A DVD would be wonderful!!
The heading to my message basically says it all. We are in desperate need of a special edition, anamorphic widescreen version of this classic film on DVD. Stay away from the Korean knockoffs that are out there on the internet. They , for some reason, have cut off the opening score, as well as the score during the closing credits. We need a legal version!
Publié le Mai 8 2004 par Darryl Bryce Antus
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Deserves a 2nd look
Jack Hawkins rules the world as the great Pharaoh, Cheops. Returning home at the outset of the film from a monumentally victorious military campaign, he settles in to his next big project - a pyramid in which he and his riches will be sealed from the outside world once he's finished in this one. This pharaoh, we quickly learn, has spent too much to acquire his riches to...
Publié le Avril 1 2003 par Rottenberg's rotten book review
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Dry Gulch, Jui 1 2004
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Here's a case of a serious mismatch between a director and his material. As interested as the great Howard Hawks might have been in Egyptian history, he should have had enough self-awareness at age 60 to know the story just didn't suit his style. The result is a laborious and unconvincing tale, stretched over 20 years, about the building of the Great Pyramid. The basic concept is that the real burial chamber of the late Cheops has never been discovered because it was cleverly concealed by a hydraulic system built into the pyramid. Some of the history worked into the story has now been refuted by archeologists, such as the idea that people were forced to work on the building. One of the first things to go when a director gets older is his sense of pacing and you begin to see that here for Hawks. Several of the players are seriously miscast, including Joan Collins, who deserved to be buried alive in the last scene for this performance, and Hawks contract player Dewey Martin, a perennial stiff. James Robertson Justice redeems it a little with a dignified performance and Jack Hawkins brings real likeability to the role of an absolute despot; not easy.
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A DVD would be wonderful!!, Mai 8 2004
The heading to my message basically says it all. We are in desperate need of a special edition, anamorphic widescreen version of this classic film on DVD. Stay away from the Korean knockoffs that are out there on the internet. They , for some reason, have cut off the opening score, as well as the score during the closing credits. We need a legal version!
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Deserves a 2nd look, Avril 1 2003
Jack Hawkins rules the world as the great Pharaoh, Cheops. Returning home at the outset of the film from a monumentally victorious military campaign, he settles in to his next big project - a pyramid in which he and his riches will be sealed from the outside world once he's finished in this one. This pharaoh, we quickly learn, has spent too much to acquire his riches to just give them to another generation. Immediately dissatisfied with his own architects, he turns to the most brilliant of the slaves taken on his last campaign to design a truly impregnable and monumental crypt. The story parallels the life of Pharaoh and the building of the pyramid. We see slaves taking to the labor with effort, though time and the lash soon erode that. As the pyramid grows, smaller stones are required, but they have to go up higher, and Egypt's quarries are approaching exhaustion. Worse, the country is running out of food to pay for its slaves. Instead, Egypt begins extorting riches from other countries - a strategy that backfires when Cyprus sends the sultry Nellifer (Joan Collins) as a tribute. Nellifer steals the heart of the already married Pharaoh and, becoming his second wife, schemes after his throne. In the end, which I won't give away, we find the evil Nellifer undone by greed as the Pharaoh had been. It's not a terribly ironic end, but the film plays it well.So why not five stars? The talent was there -Hawks and Hawkins on opposite sides of the camera, Faulkner on the script, and even a very young Joan Collins as Nellifer - but something's missing. Despite the epic scope, the story never rises above that of a greedy king and his money. There are no massive battle scenes (and with the victorious return at the movie's beginning, it's hard to avoid the idea that we've already missed the best part of the movie), and the plot (which covers years) never shows its arc. We know at the outset that Hawkins' king will be undone by his greed (the sage Vashtar tells this to the king's face) and the wise Hamar seems to have no role except to curb Pharaoh's avarice. The dialog, despite legend, actually rises above hokum (Faulkner reportedly had to apologize for his script, claiming he had no idea how a Pharaoh talked; Yul Brenner never had to use that excuse) though the lack of plot only highlights plot holes and gaps that a more dynamic story would have hidden. While "Land" isn't the cheese-fest that fans have claimed it to be, it's not as serious a story as "The Egyptian".
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Wide Screen Wonder, Mars 27 2003
One of those films that came and went in the 50's, but has some of the greatness that makes it one to add to your collection. The building of the Great Pyramid, is just about the best I have ever seen. Apart from the technical aspect, it is facinating to see just how it very well might have been done. (The idea was copied in the 90's version of the Mummy)
The only regret that I have is that it is not available on DVD! The film needs to be seen in its original format - CinemaScope - in order to fully appreciate it.
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Land of the Pharaohs, Oct. 10 2002
My dad took me to see this movie when it came out(I was 14) I am now closing on 60, I have this film in my library and veiw it often(once or twice a month), it's always a joy to sit in front of and relish in the pagentry and story line. I have loaned it out to friends from time to time and am always pleased to hear their praising comments, from the first with my dad, to now as I sit with my wife and savor the memories and present pleasures of this stupendous film, I am purchasing another just to assure this same experience as I enter old age.
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Epic production unfairly dismissed, Mai 15 2002
I've always found Howard Hawk's "Land of the Pharoahs" a masterful production full of pagentry, excitment, colour, intrigue and also a bit of a history lesson. Far from being the empty spectacle that alot of people dimiss it as, I feel the story being told is done in an intelligent and informative way that is an excellent introduction to this era of Egyptian history.Famed director Howard Hawks assembled excellent expertise in every aspect of this production from stars, production team, costumne designers down to location scouts and the film is a testament to all of their efforts. I think the intelligent way Hawks has gone about depicting the building of the great Pyramid in particular is most impressive. It is the centrepiece around which the whole story revolves and at times it takes on an almost documentary feel as it shows the painstacking attention to detail that went into the planning and then construction of the Great Pyramid over many years. Hawks chose most suitably appropiate people to fill this huge story. Jack Hawkins I feel is excellent as the Pharoah Cheops. In his autobiography Hawkins dismisses the film as a whole as " a waste of time" but I feel he is being overly harsh in his assessment and he really lends a very commanding an totally authentic air to his depiction of the Pharoah who moves a nation to create a home for his own eternal life. I feel a special credit must also go to Joan Collins who excels as the wicked Princess Nellifer who arrives at Pharoah's court as part of the tribute from the isle of Cyprus and through her own machinations, which include seduction and murder, ends up the sole Queen of Egypt. She is both exotically seductive and evil as the queen and adds a wonderful element to the proceedings. The excellent conclusion to the film where she gets her just rewards (I wont reveal what actually happens for the benefit of those who haven't seen the film)is terrific and a total surprise. As with most 1950's epics the supporting cast is top notch and Greek actor Alex Minotis deserves special mention for his dignified playing of Hamar, Pharoahs life long friend and trusted advisor who choses to go into the next life with his master. James Robertson Justice as the architect of the Pyramid also adds much to the films authentic flavour in his efforts to create a robber proof eternal resting place for the Egyptian ruler. The visual look of the film is breathtaking with many months of location shooting in Egypt in intense heat greatly adding to the overraul look of the film. It is easy nowadays to dismiss films such as this, so numerous in the 1950's, as pure hokum but I believe this film is worthy of a far better press than it obtains. The thought of how much this type of production would cost to produce nowadays, both in time and effort, is astronomical and considering the limitations of the time this effort is magnificent. "Land of the Pharoahs" is a wonderful excursion back to not only another period of history but back to another period of film making when computers were not available to do alot of the work it now takes to produce a film. The sheer human effort alone should win your admiration for this production any time you view it.
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Joan Collins Rocks The Planet!!!, Sep 5 2001
This film is too long and often boring...BUT a young and beautiful Joan Collins, puts both ss's in SASS with her innate ability to spout bitchy dialogue better than any other star. She makes the movie, as she does in most of the crap she had to make for FOX in the fifties. She made films with Bette Davis, Gregory Peck, Paul Newman, Ray Miland, Jayne Mansfield and Richard Burton and all of them were less than masterpieces. It's too bad that the greatest star ever didn't make it until years later, but at least she did!
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This thing is just down right fun to watch, Aoû 31 2000
Before picking on this as a Hollywood type of film, you haven'tseen "The Egyptian (1954)... and you don't want to see that movie. This is not a Cecil B. DeMille movie. I might not have liked it so much if I knew at the time that William Faulkner wrote it. But it is fun to watch and I believe Joan Collins is a seductress that gets what she wants (literally). Jack Hawkins is my idea of a real Pharaoh Khefu. I know because I first saw this as a kid. I love the engineering solution scenes. They actually made the film in Egypt. Yeah, I know how and who really did the building. But that does not distract from the film. I know there are no Martians but I watch war of the worlds.
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excellent and intelligent epic saga, Sep 30 1999
A much underrated film that at times almost has a documentary feel to its telling of the construction of the great Pyramid. Location photography is superb as is the costuming.And that great shock finale!! Joan Collin's last scene is worth seeing the movie for alone!!
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Music is what makes a good motion picture., Aoû 27 1999
Dimitri Tiomkin's composition and theme song of "Land of The Pharoahs" trully encaptures anyone who appreciates good music. Some of the actors cannot elevate their talents to that of Jack Hawkins, the Pharoah, especially Joan Collins, early in her career, but basically the movie is very entertaining. Watch and listen carefully to the music and enjoy its beauty and gone talents of Dimitri Tiomkin. His music imagination will envelope you into a time long past but really fascinating.
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