Word: pharaoh
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...rest was not found, and its lack left the Egyptologists on dignified tenterhooks. Last summer the missing inscription was found on a stone built into a later structure. The scholars now know that the inscription is just what Egyptian schoolboys would be likely to copy. It tells how their Pharaoh Kamose defeated the uncouth Hyksos...
Prospering in the Pharaoh's favor, the soldier aspires to the hand of the Pharaoh's sister (Gene Tierney), but the young physician cannot heal himself of his lust for a whore of Babylon (Bella Darvi). In time, Sinuhe is cured by the love of a servant girl (Jean Simmons...
...main, the story follows the book. Sinuhe (Edmund Purdom), infant son of the Pharaoh's wife, is set adrift in a reed boat on the Nile, victim of a palace plot against his mother. Rescued by a childless couple, he is raised as their son, learns the healing arts of his stepfather, a physician. Coming of age, Sinuhe meets a young soldier (Victor Mature), and together they save the life of the new Pharaoh Akhnaton (Michael Wilding) when he is attacked by a lion in the desert...
...picture's plot would perhaps be easier to decipher if patrons were handed pocket models of the Rosetta stone at the door. Ostensibly, the No. 1 digger (Robert Taylor) is out to find the tomb of the first Pharaoh to believe in only one God-the one influenced by the Biblical Joseph. But as the story goes on. the moviegoer gets an uneasy sense that he is being asked to swallow an ideological camel (with Eleanor Parker on top) about the Americans and how they alone shine like good deeds in a naughty world. ("I am afraid," sneers...
...Vadis, Ivanhoe, Knights of the Round Table), performs like a student fresh out of a cram session, stunned but effective. He even manages to sputter a little Arabic, or words to that effect-"umptu niagda brruschk!"-when the occasion requires. Comes time for the concluding festivities in the Pharaoh's crypt, Taylor seems so tired of it all that he hardly bothers to respond to Actress Parker's subterranean snuggling-a fact which at least spares the moviegoer a sort of petting party in a coffin...