The result is pretty much the same with the exception of Americans Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker (with flaming red hair) in place of Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr (with flaming red hair). Trite clichés dominate the story of the search for proof of the existence of the biblical Joseph (of Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat fame) and proof of the existence of the first pharaoh to worship just one God. Once again, there's the secondary character of the heroine's husband (Carlos Thompson), here an illegal trader of stolen artifacts in cahoots with a sinister Egyptian (Kurt Kasznar).
Wind storms, scorpions, fights over the artifacts and the rivalry for the heroine, as well as non-Arabs playing the Egyptians spouting philosophical dialog, are just some of the clichés which make this obvious and extremely predictable. It's alright in its provincial sort of way, giving gullible audiences a good thrill, yet lacking the camp that made Universal's 1940's similar adventures so much fun. Leon Askin, later the cranky German general of TV's "Hogan's Heroes", adds the only humor as a sleazy salesman of antiques. The use of the biblical story of Joseph makes an interesting premise that gives this a nice collusion between biblical history and the science of Archeology.
Wind storms, scorpions, fights over the artifacts and the rivalry for the heroine, as well as non-Arabs playing the Egyptians spouting philosophical dialog, are just some of the clichés which make this obvious and extremely predictable. It's alright in its provincial sort of way, giving gullible audiences a good thrill, yet lacking the camp that made Universal's 1940's similar adventures so much fun. Leon Askin, later the cranky German general of TV's "Hogan's Heroes", adds the only humor as a sleazy salesman of antiques. The use of the biblical story of Joseph makes an interesting premise that gives this a nice collusion between biblical history and the science of Archeology.