Land Of The Pharaohs (1955) - Khufu Returns From War

Talk about grand entrance! Pharaoh Khufu and his army return from war in the beginning of Howard Hawks' cult classic "Land Of The Pharaohs" (Warner Bros.). This is the pyramid movie of all pyramid movies!
The script: Harold Jack Bloom, William Faulkner and Harry Kurnitz.
The wonderful score: Dimitri Tiomkin.
Actors in the clip:
Pharaoh Khufu : Jack Hawkins.
High Priest Hamar: Alexis Minotis (great Greek actor!).
Queen Nailla: Kerima.

[@RiddlesOfSteel]

The benefit of films like this, even with historical inaccuracies, is that it likely made an entire generation of people interested in history. Growing up in the 90s, I remember movies like The Mummy, Bram Stokers Dracula, Excalibur, Van Helsing, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen inspiring my reading of a lot of Victorian era literature and history books.

[@nadinenadine9739]

🎉

[@johnschick5827]

Like historical figures? Study Julius Caesar. There are important lessons to be learned there.

[@Makeyourselfbig]

An entire generation of young men interested in Joan Collins more like.

[@patrickchallis5063]

Yes, now they woke are more instead in inclusive and cultural representation Han story line, plot or historical fact. In the end you get a woke picture devoid of history, facts, enjoyment and entertainment. He golden era of Hollywood may have had it’s fault but at least they new how to make great entertainment!

[@RiddlesOfSteel]

@@patrickchallis5063 it's all about balance

[@duanebarry2817]

Hollywood sure knew how to do great epic historical movies back in the 1950s and 60s. Ten Commands, Ben Hur, Cleopatra, Spartacus.

[@hendriphile]

And let’s not forget the one that started it, Quo Vadis

[@digenesakritas1107]

Samson and Delilah, the Egyptian.

[@jamescotter833]

They were fantastic films may hours watching them with my parents r.i.p mam

[@erkocab]

And all made without CGI!

[@mrtelevision8079]

and Lawrence of Arabia, one of the best films ever made (although not from Hollywood)

[@rogesmit]

Watched this in the 50s when I was a teenager I I thhought it great then and still do now. That's how you make an epic. I thought it a nice touch giving pharo a British accent. And why not😊.😊😊.

[@roberth2627]

This was only a warmer upper for the block buster ,that became the number one epic of all time's The Ten Commandments in 1956..

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

Never mind the accent, for a pharoah you need someone with a great command presence and Jack Hawkins certainly had one!

[@JeffDavies-i8q]

@@wayneantoniazzi2706 He made a good contribution to Ben Hur as well.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@JeffDavies-i8q That he did! I would have liked to have seen more of Jack Hawkin's Quintus Arrius character.

[@pracylopgonzer3176]

Yes I heard it took Hawkins a lifetime to get the English accent down just for this role 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnwilliams2479]

Watched all these sort of movies at the old Junction road, Odeon, Archway, North London, in the very early 50s

[@fus149hammer5]

If they made a modern remake it'll feature bad CGI crowds and fake looking buildings. As old as this movie is no modern film can beat genuine living extras and real sets. The effort and training just to carry Pharaohs carriage without tipping him on his head must have been enormous.

[@deniseeulert2503]

You are so right.

[@TheDejael]

Howard Hawks disliked this movie after making it, and spending nearly a year in Egypt filming many outdoor scenes, while most of the indoor scenes were shot at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank in 1954. Released in 1955, the film was very successful at the box office, with Jack Hawkins starring as the magnificent Pharaoh Khufu, second king of the 4th Dynasty, circa 2900 B.C. and credited builder of the Great Pyramid. Joan Collins, at age 21, was ravishingly beautiful and her character, Princess Nellifer of Cyprus, was deliciously wicked. A true classic, in WarnerColor, CinemaScope, and 4-channel Stereo Sound, with a fantastic music score by Dimitri Tiomkin.

[@hemming57]

Wiki says its was a box office disaster. A total flop. I love the movie, can't see why it failed.

[@TheDejael]

@@hemming57 I saw it at the theater three times in the summer of 1955, once at the Drive-In. I recall seeing lines to see it at the theater when I went to see it. I loved it! I was a boy of 8 years old. I lived in Los Angeles area and it was very successful in the Hollywood area.

[@hemming57]

@@TheDejael I grew up in LA at the same time. My Dad was a comedy writer for TV and my Mom use to sing with the big bands. We lived in Beverly Hills. A nice time and place to grow up!

[@TheDejael]

@@hemming57 I grew up in Culver City, Redondo Beach, Inglewood, and Lennox in the 1950s. it was a wonderful time to be a kid.

[@UsefulAlien]

Just love the orchestral backing music.

[@track1949]

The brass is so thrilling! 🎉

[@erkocab]

Great music!

[@richardgibbins5612]

Yup! Back when the player's didn't need sheet music or iPads to get it right! The fear of making bricks without straw kept their minds on practice!!

[@kelsowins]

I can't tell you what an impression this film's epic finale made, even seeing it on TV in the early 1960's! Finally saw it on the big screen at the Silver Theater in Silver Spring, MD, about ten years ago -- skipped church to see the Sunday matinee!

[@TheEmperorjun]

❤the difference of motion picture economics then and now are characterized by the after effects...the old hollywood employed cast, labor and production intensive endeavors to wow audiences, and sponsors plus the real life cinematography regardless of cost just to produce a masterpiece...unlike nowadays where cgi, graphic sets, camera tricks and minimal cast have become an option to gain profit at a minimal cost...

[@strongheart8]

No CGI. No AI. No electronically-created music. Real actors. Real extras. Real sets. A real orchestra making the music. And seen in a beautiful theatre with an audience paying rapt attention with no light pollution or noise from cell phones. Technology has not improved the entertainment experience, it has diminished it.

[@frankgesuele6298]

This is how you make an entrance!😎

[@chrisnewport7826]

Great scene

[@jlizamavera]

No AI, just thousand extras❤😊

[@michaelharrison8036]

I think the television news should play this music as their opening theme in the evenings. 👍👍😊😊

[@chrisnewport7826]

And our Army has not had a decent parade since ‘45.

[@SirTubeALotMore]

Nice performance by the ancient musicians

[@Rep0007]

Yah that was "Funky Pharaoh" by the Hieroglyphs. #1 for 3 weeks in 3208 BC!

[@johnwilliams2479]

The great Dimitri Tonkin you can always tell he done the music to any movie, lots of horns etc. He done the music to John Wayne's Alamo, and many many wonderful movies

[@bwgbwg1529]

yea, today's egypt national military band - known for their "extraordinary" performances of foreign national anthems - should take a listen and an example... ;)

[@TheDejael]

@@johnwilliams2479 Yes Dimitri Tiomkin's music is very loud and brassy. But it gets the job done nicely!

[@jeannerogers7085]

This is one my alltime favorite films. I still have a crush on Jack Hawkins.

[@georgesealy4706]

A cast of thousands!

[@ryanbrailey-tucker4935]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ this movie is a gem!!

[@chrisnewport7826]

Now thats a Pharaoh!

[@SohanDsouza]

I think Khufu hired an ancestor of Xzibit to arrange his transportation. "Yo Pharaoh-dawg, we heard you like being carried. So we put a litter on your litter, so you can be carried while you're being carried." #PimpMyRideAncientEgypt

[@johnschick5827]

???????

[@ferrisburgh802]

One of my favorite Hammy movies.....

[@richardcleveland8549]

Gawd! This thing must have denuded North Africa of camels for a distance of a thousand miles! As Arte Johnson would say, "Unbeleveagabul!" It's fascinating in a hideous sort of way!

[@mohamedhommos7748]

Long live the king Pharaoh Khufu 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Amazing warrior army of Egyptian And Nubians March March Egypt country in North Africa 🇪🇬❤️🌍

[@bonniestrait9138]

Please play the whole movie! Land of the pharaohs 1955❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@michaelmayo]

I wonder how much rehearsal it took to get this smooth...

[@TheDejael]

This one scene of Pharaoh returning to Memphis took 3 days to shoot. And it came out perfect! Spectacular! And very realistic to real ancient history! This is how the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom (3300-2200 B.C.) would have done it.

[@flitsertheo]

@@TheDejael 1:26 I wonder how many times they dropped the pharaoh before getting it right.

[@rickwalbu]

I wonder if the real thing was as grandiose as the movie depiction?

[@carmenschroeder872]

Khufu reigned as pharaoh in the 2500s BC. The Phoenicians, various Mesopotamian civilizations, Egyptians, Greeks, early Hebrews, and pre-Arabic civilizations were all centered around the Mediterranean Sea basin and were linked through cultural diffusion / trade. The whole region was culturally and ethnically diverse. Ancient Egyptians were most closely related to the peoples of the Near East (includes the modern-day countries of Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon). Today, modern Egyptians share 8% of their genome with central Africans, which is more than their ancient counterparts (Nature Communications study, published May 2017). Applying "whiteness" or "blackness" or "brownness" to any group of people that lived / existed prior to the 16th century (particularly in the ancient world) is anachronistic. That being said, this a great film. And Hollywood is about entertainment.

[@justintime8922]

This is 4th dynasty . Egypt did not exist . This is Kemet .These were all Nubians , Kushites of Kerma and Kemetic culture . Stemming from the Sudan. Modern Egyptians have very little relation to the Ancients .

[@JR-pf7kk]

Science says otherwise, go back and check King Tut's haplogroup. Amazing how we are lied to about our history in schools isn't it

[@welshpete12]

@@JR-pf7kk Not lied , it was what was thought to be the true back then .

[@welshpete12]

Very interesting , you obvisily know your subject . Not like some of the replies here !

[@imperishablestars33]

@@justintime8922 Egyptians we’re not Nubians or Kushites at all. Egyptians colonised the Nubians. It’s just your racist wish that they were Nubians so you can remove Egyptians from their history.

[@stephenjackson6111]

Amazing thing about ancient Egypt is that Khufu was a THOUSAND YEARS before Rameses II (and the Ten Commandments).

[@keiarai1977]

Now,it's impossible to make Hollywood masterpiece.It's too cost.

[@floriangrimaud9914]

Très joli film c'est dommage qu'on n'en fait plus un chef-d'œuvre

[@dmmchugh3714]

@1:26-30 - I did not know the Flying Wallendas were in this movie.

[@marvinbarry5094]

Jack Hawkins Khufu

[@pierluigimarchesi3568]

Must see..

[@speakiegrace]

Please upload the full movie

[@imperishablestars33]

The only mistake is camels. There were no camels in those days roaming Egypt according to historical evidence or lack there of. They didn’t even have horses until the second intermediate period.

[@MarcosCalebMarketing]

It's the other way around. At that time, there were no chariots yet. It was only camel riders. Camel Riders were from early Egyptian periods. Chariots with horses were later.

[@swaldron5558]

Also there are no British people in their times... 😮

[@flitsertheo]

@@swaldron5558 Do you know what an Egyptian accent sounded like ?

[@WesFanMan]

@@flitsertheo Actually, there is a KZbin video on just that subject. Search it!

[@onlyme972]

No definatly no camels. ​@@MarcosCalebMarketing

[@Johnnycdrums]

What's the name for those platforms, and are they made out of palm trees. The weight must be extraordinay.

[@dramanmuda1701]

Pharaoh😍

[@johnmurray3888]

Jack Hawkins must have been acutely embarrassed doing this silly scene.

[@daviddiscenza3187]

I'm sure he hid his face as he cashed his paycheck....NOT!

[@Fat12219]

It's hard n tough 💪

[@rocketsroar1]

Back when they actually knew how to make a spectacular movie. Today it would all be cartoony CGI.

[@listenup2882]

Ancient Egyptians didn't use camels.

[@cliffmashburn983]

It's gooood to be the king.

[@TheVigilantEye77]

NO CGI.

[@flitsertheo]

"Honey, I'm home !" the Egyptian way.

[@Brvnkaerv]

1:20 My boys on the left never learned to march.

[@chrisnewport7826]

Thats what I want preceding me as I go down to breakfast .The overhead is going to be a bitch.

[@michaelnewton5873]

Extras didn't make tons either. Nowdays that many extras could cost as much as the lead actors.

[@griegoriogjj3297]

Hamas el sumo sacerdote; Demuestra ser una persona muy inteligente.

[@whiteknightcat]

Would have been cool if they'd shown the orchestra playing. 😆

[@flitsertheo]

If you watch closely you can see some of the musicians.

[@surajratti1329]

The Pharaoh has a Great British Accent he may be the Pharaoh but he says to his wife he will remove the dirt and the Pharaoh eat the Apple and then throws to the floor you suppose Khao which means eating you suppose eat the Apple

[@TheChosen2030]

He was not called pharaoh during this period

[@charlessavoie2367]

The American Psychiatric Association urgently asks---"Where are the men's pants?"

[@crhu319]

Pants are literally barbaric Celtic stuff.

[@JeffDavies-i8q]

Well it is hot weather!

[@freeman2690]

We have to understand that during the time of the ancient Egyptians race had not been created yet we would not see the poisonous destruction of race until the 16th century so no pharaoh according to Jim Crow laws in the south could eat at any diner that was not colored only. I know my example is outdated but it's very simple and helps people to understand

[@abukarii4499]

Yeah because European (the colonizers) created the concept of “race” prior to the we as a black man were considered MELANATED study melanin.

[@GeorgeEugeneBarrett]

@@abukarii4499 - maybe they should have spent more time inventing/creating rather than being a stagnant culture by dancing to the same drum beat as their ancestors. Maybe then they wouldn’t have been colonized so easily, hmm?

[@philliphsieh83]

I even met the real Pharoahs who tell you not to do this!

[@paulietteburnett7270]

Princess Katerra Princess Lavengra Empress Neferterria Pharaoh

[@altond511]

How is it the Pharaoh has a British accent?

[@welshpete12]

Don't you know, we conquered nearly half the world ? :-)

[@altond511]

@@welshpete12 Who in hell are you?

[@hendriphile]

All ancient rulers (Raamses, Alexander, the Caesars in their respective movies) had British accents. Only the slave classes (Moses, Ben Hur, Spartacus) had American accents. 😉

[@brunoantony3218]

It’s not a documentary sweetie, it’s fiction, a dramatization.

[@altond511]

@@brunoantony3218 No shit Sherlock.

[@onlyme972]

Camels, didnt get domesticated for a good few years after Kufu

[@adatheraidertrue737]

At 1.37 who taught them to march at the front of pharao🤣

[@gatosimple2354]

A esas columnas le faltan dibujos , el piso no era nada liso en esa época, la vestimenta tampoco concuerdan con esa épocas , las paredes estaban cubiertas de dibujod. En esa época no existían las espadas , se empleaban lanzas, arcos y una especie de machete o típo macanas , la Po elicula no guarda concordancia con esa época, ni conocían el empleo del caballo y el camello( en etapa media recién se empezaron a emplear los caballos por influencia de los Hicsos ( los Hicsos empleaban caballos y carros de combate y espadas)

[@anthonygeorge9932]

So Khufu was a white guy???????

[@elcamman50]

Yes, in 1955 he sure was and a Brit to boot!

[@swaldron5558]

Maybe he speak English.

[@JR-pf7kk]

Well science says so, go back and check King Tut's haplogroup. Amazing how we are lied to about our history in schools isn't it

[@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري]

@@JR-pf7kk wtf are stupid khufu was black

[@عقبةبننافعبنالقيسالفهري]

@@elcamman50 no

[@malcolmclements9254]

They built the Pyramids without the wheel. They pulled 90 ton stones 500 miles across dessert. They cut marble and stone and laid each stone perfectly. They aligned the pyramids to the stars, perfectly. I can't believe they did any of this without some form of help.

[@johnschick5827]

I've seen them. Truly a monumental feat Many cultures did similar tasks, but nothing like the Egyptians. Frankly, I don't think there's anything those people couldn't accomplish once they put their minds to.

[@seymourskinner2533]

Just because you can’t see how they did it doesn’t mean they didn’t

[@crhu319]

Well believe different. Ancient people were really smart just to survive diseases, revolts, crime and corruption. And their geniuses were all in basically six or seven difficult jobs. So they could focus the whole society better.

[@marchutton7640]

Ignorance and lack of a fundamental education on your part doesn’t indicate magic or aliens had any part to play in history.

[@slome815]

The vast majority of the stones are 1.5-2.5 ton limestone blocks from the quarry right next to the pyramids of giza. The heaviest stones are the roof stones above the kings chamber, one of them is nearly 80 ton. Considering how close giza was to the nile, and how the quarry for these stones was at aswan, right next to the nile, I doubt they pulled the stones across the desert. Much more likely they shipped it down river.

[@Hiltibold]

So in the bronze age they marched like the Brits? 😆

[@justintime8922]

Silly

[@marktibbetts3799]

Ultimate UBER

[@dominiqueechevarria1889]

IAM SURE THE TRUE LIVING GOD WILL HAVE A BIG SURPRISE FOR YOU AT THE JUDGEMENT

[@WallaseyanTube]

The musical score is dreadful. It is as if it was created for another film entirely.

[@rickhobson3211]

The music for this is horrible. XD But kind of typical for the era maybe. XD

[@johnschick5827]

Prefer Gringe?