Land of the Pharaohs (MOD) "DVD"

Land of the Pharaohs (MOD) "DVD"Director Howard Hawks, who worked brilliantly in practically every movie genre, shows his mastery of the large scale epic with this gigantic production filmed on location in Egypt. Thousands of extras (9,787 in one scene alone!), magnificently detailed sets (including the pyramid's inner labyrinth, booby trapped so no one can learn its secrets and live) and vast desert vistas fill the screen and astonish the eye. There are also human scale stories. Of

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Lady's tyrannical husband lies dying

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