The EGYPTIAN (1954) 1 - Hermetic Winged Disc Akhenaton Cinema

[ViewSub]

this is such a great book ! but i have to say that nefernefernefer is quite a bitch :D

[rsronetube16]

asked once upon past of you, as i humbly plea again....

DON'T EVER DELETE THIS ....EVER.

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[oldflix4me]

Thanks from all of us who love this film, "The Egyptian". Years ago, AMC had a commercial free, letterboxed telecast of the film. I lent it out and never got it back and have been wanting to see it again for years. Hope this is going to come out on Blu-Ray. I love the score by Bernard Hermann and Alfred Newman and what a great cast. With Warner Brothers coming out with "Land of the Pharoahs" in '54 and Paramount busily cobbling together "The Ten Commandments", this film gets overlooked.

[bigstereo]

@oldflix4me It's now on BluRay. It's the first Blu Ray in a series of releases from a studio called Twilight Time. As an extra feature the isolated score is included on the disc. It is a limited edition release (Limited to 3,000 copies) and can only be purchased at screenarchives

[HistoryLover1550]

Thanks sooo much for posting this movie! I LOVE it as well as the novel!

[kellina84]

thanks for posting this movie! the book is my favorite!

[halcaannen]

this movie is supposed to be in ancient egypt, but it looks like another ancient land.

[bettyg008]

thank you so much for posting this fantastice classical movie!!!!appreciated ..

[dturnbull2]

I think this movie does a good job of telling a grand story. It is not the book. Only books written "for the screen" can be made into movies. The book is great in its own right, like most of Waltari's works of historical fiction. Thanks so much for posting this movie.

[flg4419]

Thank you for posting.I named my son Sinuhe.He is forty-one years old now.

A fine young man.

[Cuulmann]

I strongly suggest for everyone to read the book... it's much better than the film. This film, which I like a lot, does not do justice to the book, which is way better. There area many aberrations in the film. For example, in the book Sinuhe does not meet Merit until he comes back from his travels. It is he who believes in Aten and not Merit, and it's he who pursues her relentlessly and not she (as it is depicted in the film).

[islandsylph]

The book was splendid

[Pembeliini]

Like all Waltaris historical novels Sinuhe is a great book. I havent seen this movie yet but i think after seeing this vid im gonna check it.

[newthepanch]

I like most the book rather than the movie

[randomlaughingman]

btw, see books like Jesus: Last of the Pharoahs, for perspectives on who Akhenaten really was, and (there's other researchers, and more, saying this too) how his time was actually the same time when Moses took the Jews out of Egypt.

[fgulli720]

Thank you for posting this hard film to find.

[merlynstone]

Its available on DVD - but it is a Korean import.

[fgulli720]

Thank you! I obtained a copy.

[islandsylph]

The one problem of the Egyptian theme movies from the 50's is that they display egypt as such a desert. Now..yes, but 3000, 4000 years ago the lands along the nile were rich with vegetation. Valleys and fields of wheat, fruit, wildlife..it was a wealth of nature. Now..the thousands of years have passed and the changing climate has left it desert

[randomlaughingman]

desertification is a big problem in many places, un-natural farming methods and what morons call 'progress' (ie - disrupting the natural cycles, to gain seeming short-term increases in resources, to feed into their pointless going-nowhere economy) are causing the soil to become barren and dead, by killing the micro-organisms in it, and by leaving it exposed without vegetation in it, and by using metals like steel running thru it, and from using un-natural 'fertilisers'. etc etc.

[apexxxx10]

Long Live Waltari - Mika Waltari!

Sinuhe Egyptilainen

Mika Waltari

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John Koistinen-Lindgren

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Thailand

[n3st]

i want a girl like nerfernerfernerfer

[merlynstone]

you mean one that takes everything you have and won't sleep with you - hm... ever been married? ROFLMAO.

[grainofsandfan]

Thank you for posting this movie.

I appreciate people who take the time to post movies like these.

I think it makes for a richer culture.

[merlynstone]

Its actually my favorite all-time movie. Regardless of any shortcomings it may have, a remake would destroy the essence because the movies made these days arent even real sets, so it would just be a great cgi videogame to watch.

[MrMysticus1]

man,i read every Mika book,this man are GENIUS !!! RESPECT!! ave

[leducdor1]

This is as good as it ever gets for Hollywood versions of ancient Egypt. It is fairly accurate to the historical record (for Hollywood). I saw this for the 1st time on my 7th or 8th birthday, back in the late 1950s. I was already an Egypt junkie, this just concretized it. It is easy to criticize it now, but no film has ever been as just towards ancient Egypt as this one. Thanks to the person who posted the film - it means a lot to all the people who have never forgotten it.

[oprep3]

Obviously the book has much more depth and spiritual implications that the movie did not even hint at but for a Hollywood version this is about as good as anyone can expect. It really hypnotized me when I first saw it 47 years ago. I still listen to the soundtrack all the time.

[4scheveningen]

Thats always because your own mind directed it

Like the Ring !!

[lortrek]

i read a similar comment about the movie the bible, not as good as the book

[polloledj]

i love tyhis book---

[onsa0304]

Film is good, but you must also read the Mika Waltari´s great novel...it is far more better !!!

[djuma77]

Thanks for showing this! Why isn't this excellent film more widely available? A great cast, plus director Michael Curtiz, and a collaboration between Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann. Pretty impressive. Victor Mature made a number of these Fox pseudo-religious spectacles in the 50s. He was good at this stuff. It's interesting that one of the writers, Casey Robinson, also wrote Curtiz's 1935 "Captain Blood," about another conflicted doctor. Peter Ustinov adds just the right bit of humor.

[madisonelectronic]

Timmy is here, where the fuck is Lassie?

[hell0hkitty]

sounds sucks

[oprep3]

I have loved this movie since it's tv premiere on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies in 1962. I have the complete

soundtrack CD and I am amazed that the entire score was written in only five weeks. The only Newman/Herrman collaboration ever. It boggles my mind that no film critics ever include this film in the top 100. It is far better than most of the usual favorites yet is virtually unknown.

[tomreilly]

The beautiful and immensely literate Camille Paglia considers this movie one of her favorites.

[vaxxon1]

I find this very interesting. I've only seen portions of this film but knowing that Paglia favors it makes me now want to see the whole thing.

[tomreilly]

Go to The Drudge Report; skim down to Paglia; read her latest column

[khtervola]

It begins: "Only because of myself I write this, not for the people, not for the pharaos but for myself alone..." I do not remember anything else of the book, but would it be worth remembering compared to this?! Just for myself, because of my heart's wishes I do everything that I do. Such a good way to live, it leads you to where your soul goes. Can one think of a better way to live?! It does not exclude compassion but makes purer everything that you do.

[merlynstone]

"I, Sinuhe, the son of Senmut and of his wife Kipa write this. I do not write it to the glory of the gods in the land of Kem, for I am weary of gods, nor to the glory of the Pharaohs, for I am weary of their deeds. I write neither from fear nor from any hope of the future but for myself alone. During my life I have seen, known and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of kings and gods." (~Waltari, 1949)

[khtervola]

Thanks

[ksol1460]

And I can *hear* Edmund saying those words.

[merlynstone]

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