The egyptian group from the mummy movies movie#
The Egyptian is based on a 1945 novel of the same name, which itself was based on an ancient Egyptian fable called “Story of Sinuhe.” The New York Times said the film is “mainly about sex and religion in the time of the Pharaohs” but criticizes the movie for getting lost in big-budget theatrics and losing the human element: “It glistens with archaeological scenery, rumbles deeply with a sense of human woe-and moves at the pace of a death march…The swift and sexy savagery of Egypt has been washed out in ponderous charades, and the roundness and ripeness of the characters has been lost behind piety and costumes.” Land of the Pharaohs (1955) Joan Collins stars as the Pharaoh’s second wife. In the first of many lavish, opulent, big-budget Hollywood period pieces from the 1950s and early 1960s paying homage to ancient Egypt, a wandering orphan trains himself to become a physician and achieves such eminence that he becomes the official doctor at the Pharaoh’s court, where he witnesses endless romantic and sexual intrigue among the royals, much of it inspired by the fact that three of Hollywood’s most beautiful actresses at the time-Jean Simmons, Gene Tierney, and Bella Darvi-star as temptresses.
A review in The New York Times describes the scene when Imhotep is embalmed alive: “that moment when the tape is drawn across the man’s mouth and nose, leaving only his wild eyes staring out of the coffin, is one of decided horror.” The Egyptian (1954) Bella Darvi stars as an Egyptian temptress. Universal Studios made The Mummy in the wake of the discovery of King Tut’s long-lost tomb and the alleged curse that opening it would unleash upon the world.
Using extensive makeup to hide his deep wrinkles, Imhotep poses as a modern Egyptian named Ardeth Bay as he roams Cairo in search of his lost love, whom he mistakes for a modern girl. The Mummy (1932) The mummy comes to life after 3,700 years.įresh on the heels of reaching international stardom through his 1931 role as Frankenstein, Boris Karloff stars as Imhotep, an Egyptian mummy who’s been wrapped in winding cloths for 3,700 years until his corpse was disturbed by archeologists who accidentally bring him to life through a magic scroll. Once thought to be entirely lost, The Loves of Pharaoh now exists in a shortened version that has been pieced together with stills and title cards in the place of the lost footage. This silent classic was directed by Ernst Lubitsch in Germany before he fled the Nazis and established himself as a prominent Hollywood director. Paul Wegener stars in blackface as Samlak, the King of Ethiopia, who offers Theonis to King Amenes as a peace gesture. The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) The Loves of Pharaoh: This silent German film is the first of the large-scale biblical epics.Įmil Jannings, the first man ever to win a Best Actor Oscar, stars as the Egyptian pharaoh King Amenes, who casts his lustful gaze upon a Greek slave girl named Theonis (Dagny Servaes), who rebukes his advances because she’s in love with an Egyptian slave who’s being held captive in a rock quarry.
If you’re looking for movies just about mummies head here, and if you’re looking for an accurate representation of what life in Ancient Egypt was really like you better off reading history books, absorbing documentaries, or watching Faraon (1966), a movie further described below. The films in this list all pay homage to ancient Egypt, but ironically often with a focus on the biblical Book of Exodus, since that is the story from which all Western monotheistic religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-derive, and which so much of Hollywood has been preoccupied with since the beginning of cinematic history. Without Ancient Egypt and the many innovations of their culture - linguistics, architecture, art, religious rituals, philosophy and so on - modern society would not be what it is today for instance, the ancient Greeks used ancient Egypt as the genesis for their world. There was nothing quite like this glimmering society adjacent to the Nile River in North Africa that reigned for 30 centuries, and there might never be again. Ancient Egypt was one of the most miraculous civilizations to ever exist on planet Earth.
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