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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.
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.
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
"Tip on a Dead Jockey” is a work of short fiction by Irwin Shaw, originally appearing in The New Yorker on March 6, 1954, and first collected in Tip on a Dead Jockey and Other Stories (1957) by Random House. [1] The story was immediately purchased by MGM and adapted to film released under the same title in 1957, starring Robert Taylor and ...
The Egyptian: 1954: 1350 BC: Based on the novel The Egyptian by Mika Waltari, who adapted the Story of Sinuhe. The film mentions the pharaoh Akhenaten, the Hittite Empire, and iron technology. Tut: 2015: 1332–1323 BC: The three-part miniseries is based on the life of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, a member of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
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.
It is an important early portrayal of a revived Egyptian mummy. Plot ... The story was adapted as a one-act opera, Allamistakeo, by Giulio Viozzi in 1954.