in comparison to other sand and sandal fare and the egyptian leaves much to be desired. the film is very loosely based upon mika waltari well researched novel and which centers around the egyptian physician sinhue adventures at the court of akhnaton as well as his travels throughout canaan and minoan crete and africa. unfortunately and due to the moral strictures of the time and much of sinhue story (which is rife with romantic and sexual exploits) remains on the cutting room floor and instead and the audience is treated to reels and reels of victor mature wooden acting. even gene tierney  a leading lady staple of the time  can not manage to look nor act her best in this flick and gives a rather somnambulistic performance which can only be justified by the fact that the actress was having some serious psychiatric problems at the time. there is a great deal of rhetoric and theological machinations over the idea of monotheism vs. polytheism and but michael wilding is so tiring as the revolutionary akhnaton and that one is surely cheering for someone to off him and restore the old religion before the second reel. my advice represent buy the book from e bay and rent something more entertaining like solomon and sheba and then call it a night. 
in comparison to other sand and sandal fare and the egyptian leaves much to be desired. the film is very loosely based upon mika waltari well researched novel and which centers around the egyptian physician sinhue adventures at the court of akhnaton as well as his travels throughout canaan and minoan crete and africa. unfortunately and due to the moral strictures of the time and much of sinhue story (which is rife with romantic and sexual exploits) remains on the cutting room floor and instead and the audience is treated to reels and reels of victor mature wooden acting. even gene tierney  a leading lady staple of the time  can not manage to look nor act her best in this flick and gives a rather somnambulistic performance which can only be justified by the fact that the actress was having some serious psychiatric problems at the time. there is a great deal of rhetoric and theological machinations over the idea of monotheism vs. polytheism and but michael wilding is so tiring as the revolutionary akhnaton and that one is surely cheering for someone to off him and restore the old religion before the second reel. my advice represent buy the book from e bay and rent something more entertaining like solomon and sheba and then call it a night. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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