"Valley of the Kings" shapes up as an exciting but familiar story, lacking imagination, about archaeologists and pharaoh's tombs...
Desert people, sand storms, caravans of giant camels, typical Faiyum oasis, chase of carriages in the crowded streets of Al-Qahirah (The Victorious) known as Cairo, old markets and antique shops, the Nile, Saint Catherine's Greek Orthodox monastery (situated on the inspiring Mount Sinai), the Pharaonic Temple of Luxor, the grandeur of the Great Sphinx and the 3 great pyramids of Giza (Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure), give a proper ambiance to a mysterious tale...
Robert Pirosh's direction is strong and well-developed, and the thrilling natural settings steal the picture...
Tayloran attractive masculine grace against wide vistas and bright skies, shortly finds himself forced to prove his courage with fists and even swords, climaxing in a murderous struggle with Carlos Thompson on the highest peak of one of the four gigantic statues of the great pharaoh Ramesses II, at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel... But Eleonor Parker's acting had more fire in it... She emits, on the screen, a source of radiant energy of a young woman who knows exactly where, and with whom, she wants to be...
Thompson, suitably menacing and malicious, provides the excitement as it seems he is in association with dangerous vicious Egyptian grave robbers who sell tomb treasures on the black markets...
Kurt Kasznar is evil and trouble as his sinister ally... Leon Askin plays both sides as a coward dealer in antiques, and Victor Jory is a frightening attraction as he tries to win Taylor in desert swordplay... One of the great Egyptian belly dancers of the 50's, the talented Samia Gamal, gives to the atmosphere a graceful touch in proportions and techniques, style and attitude...
If you like to take a tour of this beautiful country and see wonderful sites of an ancient land, temples, tombs, treasures and secrets forever cherished within your mind, and you love to see the legendary Robert Taylor singing in Arabic in a relaxing moment aboard a Nile sailing boat, don't hesitate to watch this filmthin as drama with little action and suspense but loaded with splendid locations...
Desert people, sand storms, caravans of giant camels, typical Faiyum oasis, chase of carriages in the crowded streets of Al-Qahirah (The Victorious) known as Cairo, old markets and antique shops, the Nile, Saint Catherine's Greek Orthodox monastery (situated on the inspiring Mount Sinai), the Pharaonic Temple of Luxor, the grandeur of the Great Sphinx and the 3 great pyramids of Giza (Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure), give a proper ambiance to a mysterious tale...
Robert Pirosh's direction is strong and well-developed, and the thrilling natural settings steal the picture...
Tayloran attractive masculine grace against wide vistas and bright skies, shortly finds himself forced to prove his courage with fists and even swords, climaxing in a murderous struggle with Carlos Thompson on the highest peak of one of the four gigantic statues of the great pharaoh Ramesses II, at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel... But Eleonor Parker's acting had more fire in it... She emits, on the screen, a source of radiant energy of a young woman who knows exactly where, and with whom, she wants to be...
Thompson, suitably menacing and malicious, provides the excitement as it seems he is in association with dangerous vicious Egyptian grave robbers who sell tomb treasures on the black markets...
Kurt Kasznar is evil and trouble as his sinister ally... Leon Askin plays both sides as a coward dealer in antiques, and Victor Jory is a frightening attraction as he tries to win Taylor in desert swordplay... One of the great Egyptian belly dancers of the 50's, the talented Samia Gamal, gives to the atmosphere a graceful touch in proportions and techniques, style and attitude...
If you like to take a tour of this beautiful country and see wonderful sites of an ancient land, temples, tombs, treasures and secrets forever cherished within your mind, and you love to see the legendary Robert Taylor singing in Arabic in a relaxing moment aboard a Nile sailing boat, don't hesitate to watch this filmthin as drama with little action and suspense but loaded with splendid locations...