Land of the Pharaohs (1955) Movie Review

Land of the Pharaohs (1955) (IMDB)

Land of the Pharaohs movie poster

This movie is about a pharaoh, Pharaoh Khufu who is planning for his second life after his death. He wants to be buried in a pyramid, surrounded by his many treasures, that is grave robber proof. So this is an estate planning movie. Can you imagine if in modern times when a person passed away they were buried with all of their valuable things instead of leaving an inheritance. The pharaoh has a captured architect design a pyramid that uses a labyrinth combined with blocked passageways to trap and block grave robbers. Now you just need to build the pyramid ! And that is the bulk of the movie, the building of the pyramid. There are thousands of extras, great orchestral music, huge sets, and dramatic acting - everything you would expect from this type of movie except the 3+ hour runtime (it is only 1 hour, 46 minutes). Overall it was a solid movie.

I give it a 6.4/10.