Awesome costuming, subverted history or epic fail? A The Egyptian (1954) review

Arwen reviews "The Egyptian" 1954, starring Jean Simmons and Peter Ustinov amongst others. Did it stand the test of time? How good was the book the film is based on? What can go wrong in book to film adaptations? Could the actors save this movie? What did the Hays Code have to do with it? Dare we touch religion? If so, which one?! And stick around for a history lesson or two about ancient Egypt.
0:00 "The Egyptian" 1954 script by Philip Dunne
Directed by #MichaelCurtiz
Written by #PhilipDunne, Casey Robinson, Mika Waltari
Starring:
#JeanSimmons as Merit
#VictorMature as Horemheb
#EdmundPurdom as Sinuhe
Michael Wilding as Akhnaton
Bella Darvi as Nefer
#PeterUstinov as Kaptah
Gene Tierney as Baketamon
Judith Evalyn as Taia
#JohnCarradine as Grave Robber
1:20 The book and translations
2:10 Christian religious costume drama?
3:25 Set 1300 BCE in Egypt
4:50 Toth, Egyptian deity
6:05 Adapting a book to film
7:00 The cast: Ustinov, Simmons, Mature
Edmund Purdom as Sinuhe
8:00 The problem with the movie
9:30 Directed by Michael Curtiz
9:45 Akhenaten aka Echnaton, Egyptian pharaoh
11:45 A change in religion - Henotheism
14:00 After Akhenaten
15:00 Akhenaten and Christianity
16:20 Story of Sinuhe, the court physician
17:15 The Egyptian art and diversity
18:30 Map time!
19:10 Kush empire (Eritrea)
20:30 Bella Darvi as Nefer
20:50 Sinuhe's story
22:15 And there was a kid
23:22 The Hays Code in the 1950s
24:25 History - Akhenaten's power
27:30 Akhenaten and Tutankhamun
29:10 Horenheb and Sinuhe
30:40 Fashion in this movie
31:35 Women and pharaohs
33:35 Pharaoh's duty to protect Egypt
34:15 Hittites, Syrians and Kushites
35:00 Finnish author
36:00 Horenheb and Sinuhe
37:30 Crossroads in history for the author
39:10 Well-researched book
40:00 The actors and the director
43:00 Film versus the book
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Music: Magnetic Rag by Scott Joplin
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