La Terre des pharaons
Chaque pierre de la pyramide fut souillée de son sang.
1955 • 105 min • Drama · History
Our family guide
Best from age 10- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 64 Audience · 110 · 47%
Pour s'assurer une vie après la mort en toute sécurité, un Pharaon égyptien ancien ordonne à un architecte de construire un tombeau impénétrable. Le film suit la construction élaborée de la pyramide et la trahison qui se déroule au sein de la cour royale à mesure que l'obsession s'empare d'eux.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 0/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 3/10
Heads up
- Quelques dangers et implications violentes
- Trahison et perfidie dans l'intrigue
- Des cobras présentés comme une menace
What it models well
- Ingéniosité et ingénierie
- Contexte historique
- Conséquences de la cupidité
Talk about it after
- L'obsession du pouvoir et de l'héritage
- La vie et la mort dans les cultures anciennes
- La valeur de la vie humaine face aux monuments
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Top billed cast
Director: Howard Hawks • Crew: William Faulkner, Harry Kurnitz, Harold Jack Bloom
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Reviewer notes
RecommendedI wouldn't say that this was Jack Hawkins' finest film and it certainly isn't something that would have kept Cecil B. de Mille awake at night but it is watchable enough despite the script being a bit garrulous.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewers_**Building the Great Pyramid in Egypt**_ After years of war victories and accumulated wealth circa 2600 BC, Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) becomes obsessed with building an impenetrable tomb for his body & riches, etc. Khufu turns to the brilliant architect and newly acquired slave, Vashtar (James Robertson Justice), to build the Great Pyramid, aka the Pyramid of Cheops or Giza.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersThe barbarous love that left Egypt’s great pyramid as its wondrous landmark. Land of the Pharaohs is directed by Howard Hawks and collectively written by Harold Jack Bloom, William Faulkner and Harry Kurnitz. It stars Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, James Robertson Justice, Dewey Martin and Alex Minotis. Music is by Dimitri Tiomkin and cinematography by Lee Garmes and Russell Harlan.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.4/10 (110)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2,900,000
- IMDb
- tt0048283
