I was a sophomore in high school in Rochester, New York when the movie was released in 1963. One of the Rochester newspapers ran a contest to find a Liz Taylor look-alike. The guy I was dating at the time was an usher at the theater where the movie was premiering, and he got me in for free. The winner of the contest was there in a gold costume and headdress, similar to the one Liz wore on her entrance to Rome. Hard to believe it was so many years ago. I'm 75 now. Yikes!
I didn’t see it until about ten years later.
The movie actually inspired me to learn about Egypt of that time; and then the traveling King Tut exhibit did the same.
The movie was too ‘Hollywood’, and not enough ‘Egypt’ of it’s time...
But, again, it was fun.