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The Egyptian is a 1954 American epic historical drama film made by 20th Century-Fox. Filmed in CinemaScope with color by DeLuxe, it was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on Mika Waltari's 1945 novel of the same name and the screenplay was adapted by Philip Dunne and Casey Robinson.
[1] [2] [Note 1] Regarded as "one of the greatest books in Finnish literary history", [5] it is, so far, the only Finnish novel to be adapted into a Hollywood film, which happened in 1954. The Egyptian is the first and the most successful of Waltari's great historical novels, and that which gained him international fame.
This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekly box office in the United States during 1954 per Variety's weekly National Boxoffice Survey. The results are based on a sample of 20-25 key cities and therefore, any box office amounts quoted may not be the total that the film grossed nationally in the week.
Year Title Director Notes 1953 Aida: 1953 Serpent of the Nile: William Castle: With Rhonda Fleming as Cleopatra.: 1954 Two Nights with Cleopatra: 1954 The Egyptian: 1955 Land of the Pharaohs
Edmund Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1926 – 1 January 2009) [1] [2] was an English actor, voice artist, and director.He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then in the United States on Broadway and in Hollywood, and eventually in Italy.
The Lavon affair was a failed Israeli covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of a false flag operation, [1] a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned civilian targets: cinemas, libraries, and American educational centers.
This was the first film role that Omar Sharif played. In 1996, during the Egyptian Cinema centennial, this film was selected one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions. It was presented in the 1954 Cannes Film Festival under the name The Blazing Sky. [1] [2] It was a box office hit in the Soviet Union, where it sold 25.8 million tickets in ...
Entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival: El Wahsh (The Monster) Salah Abu Seif: Anwar Wagdi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Samia Gamal, Abbas Fares: Crime: Entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival: El Zolm Haram (Injustice Is Forbidden) Hasan El-Saifi