This movie has a special feeling me: It was X-mas 2017, i had a cold and was at my brother's place: not able to sleep, i zapped on the TV and caught the movie when they open the tomb! I was hooked at first: sure it's a rip off from Raiders but it has talent and dynamic.
Back in the early Twenties the discovery of this intact tomb of an minor (in both senses of the word)Egyptian king was the headline of the day. It was the end of a lifetime of work for Howard Carter who like so many in the field dreamed of hitting the big strike.
Acting and cast was really good. Special effects were ok.
This is possible the worst paced adventure movie I've ever seen. Ignoring that this is pure fantasy as I can't bear to go into the historical issues, the is just all over the place.
Too bad there's no negative stars rating... I was appalled by everything about this movie, including the chick's fake French accent, the terrible Indiana Jones/the Mummy ripoff, and the awful editing.
After 6 hard years of work in the Valley of the Kings an archeologist by the name of "Howard Carter" (Robin Ellis) finally finds what he believes is the burial place of King Tutankhamun. Extremely excited by this he immediately contacts his sponsor "Lord George Carnarvon" (Harry Andrews) who immediately makes plans to see it for himself in spite of a warning from a medium named "Princess Vilma" (Wendy Hiller) of dire consequences if he travels to Egypt.
While I hesitate to call movies Indiana Jones ripoffs, this one isn't even trying to hide that fact. It's fairly blatant.
This movie does at first seem like a copy of the "Indiana Jones" movies, and it does bear a lot of striking resemblances to those movies. That being said, don't get me wrong.
This is Eypyian fantasy adventure escapism and measures up well in that category. If you love movies with Egyptian settings and lore, you CAN lose yourself in this.
