The Egyptian
To Nefer, shameless temptress of Babylon, he surrendered his parents' hope of immortality!
6.4 / 10
139 minutes
1954-08-25
Greek
US
Actors :
Edmund Purdom, Victor Mature, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons, Gene Tierney, Bella Darvi, Michael Wilding, Judith Evelyn, Henry Daniell, John Carradine, Carl Benton Reid, Tommy Rettig, Anitra Stevens, Michael Ansara, Henry Corden
Description
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
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CinemaSerf
11/21/2022, 5:09:51 PM
Edmund Purdom plays the title role in this scalpel-and-sandal melodrama that may be loosely based on "The Tale of Sinuhe" from the 12th and 13th dynasties (c. 1900 BC) as a physician and his friend who encounter the Pharaoh (Michael Wilding) in the desert and rescue him from a lion after he has had some sort of fit. "Sinuhe" becomes a wealthy and well patronised doctor to the court and to the rich...