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To: GeronL; SunkenCiv
There is a stinker of a movie called Land of the Pharaohs, to which I was recently treated, which is a fictitious account of the building of the Great Pyramid. Maybe the only stinker Howard Hawks ever made.

Anyhow, the plot is a very young Joan Collins is a scheming second wife of Khufu who wants to grab all that treasure he is filling his pyramid with. She murders the first wife and sets in motion Khufu's death.

The ending is great. She demands to be recognized as Queen, but the first minister says she must enter the tomb to order its closure. He then engages a huge machine that seals the tomb, with them in it along with the others who were to be sealed in to ease Pharaoh's way into the afterlife.

It was meant to be horrifying. I suppose in 1955 it may have been. Today, Collins' acting seems campy and I actually laughed during the last scene.

14 posted on 09/25/2014 3:37:28 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

“The tomb is being sealed, your Highness.”


15 posted on 09/07/2020 5:17:32 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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