1955 film by Howard Hawks
Land of the Pharaohs is a 1955 American epic historical drama film in CinemaScope and WarnerColor from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced and directed by Howard Hawks. The cast was headed by Jack Hawkins as Pharaoh Khufu and Joan Collins as one of his wives, Nellifer. The film is a fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid. Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner was one of the film's three credited screenwriters.
Land of the Pharaohs had a cast of thousands – Warners' press office claimed there were 9,787 extras in one scene – and was one of Hollywood's largest-scale, ancient world epics, made in the same spirit as The Robe, The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur.
Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.