Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Director:

Howard Hawks

Escritores:

William Faulkner (written by) &
Harry Kurnitz (written by) ...
(más)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

24 junio 1955 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

HER BLOOD STAINED EVERY STONE OF THE PYRAMID

Plot:

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to insure the impregnability of tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.

Plot Keywords:

Pharaoh | Tomb | Egypt | Architect | Ancient Egypt

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Actually better than most desert sands of ancient Egypt sagas.

Reparto

Jack Hawkins	...	Pharaoh Khufu
Joan Collins	...	Princess Nellifer
Dewey Martin	...	Senta
Alex Minotis	...	Hamar (as Alexis Minotis)
James Robertson Justice	...	Vashtar
Luisella Boni	...	Kyra (as Luisa Boni)
Sydney Chaplin	...	Treneh
James Hayter	...	Mikka, Vashtar's servant
Kerima	...	Nailla
Piero Giagnoni	...	Xenon (Pharaoh's Son)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Diego Carlisi	...	Priest (uncredited)
Carlo D'Angelo	...	(uncredited)
Robert Rietty	...	Hamar (voice) (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Howard Hawks

Créditos del guión
William Faulkner		(written by) &
Harry Kurnitz		(written by) and
Harold Jack Bloom		(written by)

Producida por
Howard Hawks	....	producer
Arthur Siteman	....	associate producer
Chuck Hansen	....	associate producer (uncredited)

Música original por
Dimitri Tiomkin

Fotografía por
Lee Garmes		(photographed by)
Russell Harlan		(photographed by)

Montaje por
Vladimir Sagovsky		(as V. Sagovsky)

Dirección artística
Alexandre Trauner

Diseño de vestuario por
Mayo
Lucilla Mussini		(uncredited)

Departamento de maquillaje
Emile LaVigne	....	makeup artist (as Emile Lavigne)
Ann Locker	....	hair stylist

Dirección de producción
Chuck Hansen	....	unit manager

Ayudante de dirección
Paul Helmick	....	assistant director
Noël Howard	....	second unit director (as Noel Howard)
Chuck Hansen	....	second assistant director (uncredited)
Jean-Paul Sassy	....	assistant director (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Oliver S. Garretson	....	sound

Efectos especiales
Donald Steward	....	special effects (as Don Steward)

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Ernst Haas	....	still photographer (uncredited)
Homer Plannette	....	gaffer (uncredited)

Departamento de Edición
Rudi Fehr	....	supervising editor

Departamento de Música
Dimitri Tiomkin	....	conductor
Lucien Cailliet	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Manuel Emanuel	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Jester Hairston	....	choral director (uncredited)
Paul Marquardt	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
George Parrish	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Leonid Raab	....	orchestrator (uncredited)
Herbert Taylor	....	orchestrator (uncredited)

Departamento de Transporte
Christian Ferry	....	transportation coordinator (uncredited)

Otros miembros del equipo
Maisie Kelly	....	continuity

Compañías Productores

• Continental Company

Distribuidores

• Warner Bros. Pictures (1955) (USA) (theatrical) (as Warner Bros. Pictures A Time Warner Entertainment Company)
• Warner Bros. (1955) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1959) (USA) (theatrical) (reissue)
• Warner Home Video (1992) (USA) (VHS) (pan/scan)
• Warner Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Warner Bros. (????) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Warner Bros. (????) (UK) (theatrical)

También conocida como:

Howard Hawks' Land of the Pharaohs (USA) (complete title)
Tierra de faraones (Spain) [es]

Duración:

Canada:144 min | UK:105 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.55 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (optical prints) | 4-Track Stereo (RCA Sound Recording) (magnetic prints)

Clasificación:

UK:U (cut) | Australia:G | West Germany:12 | USA:Approved (certificate #16995) | Finland:K-16 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Egypt

Compañía:

Continental Company

Trivialidades:

WILHELM SCREAM: Emanating from within a crocodile.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: During the ceremony for the soldiers who were cowards in battle, when they are thrown into the alligator pit, the alligators are seen eating but there is not one drop of blood seen in the water.

Citas:

[first lines]
Hamar: I, Hamar, Lord High Priest of Egypt, am preparing a chronicle of the reign of Khufu, ruler of Egypt. Word has come that again he has been victorious in the war against our enemies and now Egypt has taken its place as the greatest of all nations in the world! Today, Pharaoh and his armies return.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en En construcción (2001)

Actually better than most desert sands of ancient Egypt sagas.

While this may be a somewhat Readers Digest-level glimpse of 'pharaonic' Egypt - at the height of pyramid building, it has both high production values (-for the 50s-) as well as making an earnest attempt at accurately depicting what we then knew of ancient Egyptian life. Jack Hawkins - as Pharaoh, gives a better than journeyman's portrayal of a kindly autocratic leader, his beliefs, strivings and motivations - all conveyed believably. A youthful (very) Joan Collins - and maybe a bit on the chubby side, does rather well with a weakly written and somewhat soap-opera'ish part as the conniving #2 queen. James Robertson Justice is superb as the captured and enslaved architect-engineer; the one whom designs and then oversees for Pharaoh the building of his funerary pyramid; a structure replete with multiple self-sealing stone doors ingeniously powered by the "hydraulics" of sand. The cinematography, pacing and continuity are at the very least good. Director Howard Hawks does masterfully as a story teller with something worth saying. For its genre and vintage this is both a story and movie worthy of a view - especially by those inclined to also be somewhat interested in the 'how' of those ancient times as well as the 'who' and 'why.' It would be nice if this was soon available on DVD.