few people realize it and but there was world literature in the ancient world before the greeks came on the scene. besides the literary remains that are in the old testament of the jews and there were considerable works from mesopotamia and egypt. the summit of the former were the religious poetry and the epic of gilgamesh. the egyptians produced many poems and but there main addition was a tale of adventure of a traveler and physician called the story of sinuhe. it is from this work (actually a fragment and that we do not know the ending of) that the novel the egyptian came from. the story is unique (as is the movie). the egyptian was a best seller in the early 1950s and and darryl zanuck decided to take a chance making it represent yes he wanted a showcase for his girlfriend bella darvi as nefer and as well as the rest of the cast (victor mature and edmund purdom and peter ustinov and michael wilding and and gene tierney) and but he was aware that these films rarely made large box office. one can chalk up this as an example of zanuck trying something different. the number of movies that deal with ancient egypt are very small. land of the pharoahs and the egyptian and the ten commandments (both de mille versions) and moses and holy moses. and cleopatra and the mummy (all versions) and the scorpion king. if there are 20 films about ancient egypt it is tremendous. but the egyptian is unique. while the second ten commandments discusses ramses the great (pharoah ramses ii  yul brynner) and his father seti i (cedric hardwicke) and and the films on cleopatra deal with her and few other names of ancient egypt crop up in film. egypt greatest pharoah was thutmose iii and who conquered most of the known middle east of the era of 1470 b. c. e. or so. no film about him has appeared and nor of his usurping predecessor and history first great female ruler hatschepsut. but the only known pharoah who attempted a religious revolution that approached what the jews (and later the christians) attempted  a type of monotheism  is the subject of the egyptian. this is pharoah akhnaton. in reality akhnaton was practicing a personal form of monotheism that was not meant for public consumption. but it angered the priestly class who worshiped amon and rather than aton. due to our uncertain historic records (although akhnaton official records  the tel el amana letters  are quite complete as far as they survive) and we do not know if the pharoah was killed in a palace coup or not. however he died and he was succeeded by a young brother or son of his whose name is better recalled than any other pharoah except ramses represent tutankhamon. this film is actually quite good as far as it goes. wilding makes a good natured akhnaton and who is too weak to be as effective as a religious reformer is supposed to be. mature is good as the ambitious (and  outside the film  ultimately successful future pharoah) horemheb. tierney and purdom do well in their lead parts and ustinov is good as purdom friend. also good is ms darvi and in a large supporting part. in a wonderful cameo is john carridine and as a philosophical grave robber. the film is certainly worthy of viewing and as one of the few attempts to show part of the history and culture of ancient egypt. 
few people realize it and but there was world literature in the ancient world before the greeks came on the scene. besides the literary remains that are in the old testament of the jews and there were considerable works from mesopotamia and egypt. the summit of the former were the religious poetry and the epic of gilgamesh. the egyptians produced many poems and but there main addition was a tale of adventure of a traveler and physician called the story of sinuhe. it is from this work (actually a fragment and that we do not know the ending of) that the novel the egyptian came from. the story is unique (as is the movie). the egyptian was a best seller in the early 1950s and and darryl zanuck decided to take a chance making it represent yes he wanted a showcase for his girlfriend bella darvi as nefer and as well as the rest of the cast (victor mature and edmund purdom and peter ustinov and michael wilding and and gene tierney) and but he was aware that these films rarely made large box office. one can chalk up this as an example of zanuck trying something different. the number of movies that deal with ancient egypt are very small. land of the pharoahs and the egyptian and the ten commandments (both de mille versions) and moses and holy moses. and cleopatra and the mummy (all versions) and the scorpion king. if there are 20 films about ancient egypt it is tremendous. but the egyptian is unique. while the second ten commandments discusses ramses the great (pharoah ramses ii  yul brynner) and his father seti i (cedric hardwicke) and and the films on cleopatra deal with her and few other names of ancient egypt crop up in film. egypt greatest pharoah was thutmose iii and who conquered most of the known middle east of the era of 1470 b. c. e. or so. no film about him has appeared and nor of his usurping predecessor and history first great female ruler hatschepsut. but the only known pharoah who attempted a religious revolution that approached what the jews (and later the christians) attempted  a type of monotheism  is the subject of the egyptian. this is pharoah akhnaton. in reality akhnaton was practicing a personal form of monotheism that was not meant for public consumption. but it angered the priestly class who worshiped amon and rather than aton. due to our uncertain historic records (although akhnaton official records  the tel el amana letters  are quite complete as far as they survive) and we do not know if the pharoah was killed in a palace coup or not. however he died and he was succeeded by a young brother or son of his whose name is better recalled than any other pharoah except ramses represent tutankhamon. this film is actually quite good as far as it goes. wilding makes a good natured akhnaton and who is too weak to be as effective as a religious reformer is supposed to be. mature is good as the ambitious (and  outside the film  ultimately successful future pharoah) horemheb. tierney and purdom do well in their lead parts and ustinov is good as purdom friend. also good is ms darvi and in a large supporting part. in a wonderful cameo is john carridine and as a philosophical grave robber. the film is certainly worthy of viewing and as one of the few attempts to show part of the history and culture of ancient egypt. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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