Land of the Pharaohs

Land of the Pharaohs is a 1955 American epic film in Cinemascope, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring the two British actors Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins as Pharaoh Khufu also known as Cheops and his second wife Nellifer, in fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid. Novelist William Faulkner was one of the three screenwriters.

In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Khufu Jack Hawkins is obsessed with preparing his tomb for the second life. Dissatisfied with his own architects offerings, he enlists Vashtar James Robertson Justice, an ingenious man whose devices nearly saved his own people from being conquered and enslaved by Khufu. Khufu offers to free Vashtars people if he will build Khufu a robberproof tomb although Vashtar will have to die when the pyramidtomb is completed, to guard its secrets. During the years that the pyramid is being built, Pharaoh demands tribute and labor from all his territories, amassing gold and treasures to be interred with him.Princess Nellifer Joan Collins comes as the ambassador of the tributary province of Cyprus. Claiming her province is poor and cannot afford to pay the assigned tribute, she offers herself to Pharaoh instead. She becomes Khufus second wife. ........

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