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By Nia E (226) on 01 Jan 2008

Enjoyable spectacle, but a little thin on interesting plot…

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By Bill W (569) on 16 Oct 2007

Howard Hawks fascinated by the engineering aspect of pyramids but bored by the story. But as dull movies go, there's sure lots to look at…

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By Ilona V (15) on 14 Sep 2007

A childhood favourite and I've since enjoyed historical spectacles. Tongueless monks and Joan Collins as a ruthless concubine, it's fantastic…

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By Russell G (1,053) on 20 Jul 2007

An odd film for Howard Hawks. This one really concentrates on the building of the pyramids, in a real detailed way…

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By John J. Puccio (1,217) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 18 Jun 2007

No wars; no battles; one dinky sword fight. But much pageantry…

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By Tim Purtell (11) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 20 Jul 2002

Joan Collins and her pointy bras are a hubba-hubba hoot…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 21 Dec 1994

Howard Hawks’s only attempt at a wide-screen blockbuster (1955), much disparaged afterward by Hawks and many others, is actually fairly awesome…

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By Laurence Phelan (27) for The Independent (259) on 19 Aug 1993

Although the script (by Faulkner, among others) gets stranded with the usual slightly wooden dialogue considered necessary for ancient times,…

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By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 17 Aug 1974

Joan Collins is the only person in this film who seems to be enjoying the fact it's a big camp mess…

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By A.h. Weiler (53) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 Oct 1962

While it is impressively sweeping in its eye-filling pageantry, this saga of the building of a colossal pyramid 5,000 years ago is staged on…

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By Mike Clark (1,024) for USA Today (4,117) on 23 Sep 1962

Jack Hawkins is convincing in the lead role, while Joan Collins does what she does best, playing a ruthless, self-obsessed queen with no redeeming…

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