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Director:
Writers:
Sam Duncan (story)
Philip Dunne (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
28 October 1938 (USA) more
Tagline:
A man of two loves and one mighty deed ! more
Plot:
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. more
User Comments:
Just magnificent on every level. Unsurpassable more (6 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tyrone Power | ... | Ferdinand de Lesseps |
 | Loretta Young | ... | Countess Eugenie de Montijo |
 | Annabella | ... | Toni Pellerin |
| J. Edward Bromberg | ... | Prince Said |
| Joseph Schildkraut | ... | Vicomte Rene De Latour |
| Henry Stephenson | ... | Count Mathieu de Lesseps |
| Sidney Blackmer | ... | Marquis Du Brey |
| Maurice Moscovitch | ... | Mohammed Ali (as Maurice Moscovich) |
| Sig Ruman | ... | Sergeant Pellerin (as Sig Rumann) |
| Nigel Bruce | ... | Sir Malcolm Cameron |
| Miles Mander | ... | Benjamin Disraeli |
| George Zucco | ... | Prime Minister |
| Leon Ames | ... | Napoleon III - Emperor of France |
| Rafaela Ottiano | ... | Maria De Teba |
| Victor Varconi | ... | Victor Hugo |
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Runtime:
USA:98 min (FMC Library Print) | 104 min (copyright length)
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Color:
Black and White (Sepiatone)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #4281) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | West Germany:12 | Finland:S
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In an interview in the late 1970s, director Allan Dwan talked of the censorship battle he had with the Hays Office over the wet-shirt scene, in which Annabella's erect nipples are on prominent display. "I wanted them to show," he said. His argument with the Hays Office was, "Have you ever seen a nude woman? Ever seen your wife nude? There was nothing there that wasn't positively true to life ... you knew she was going to be sexy ... that's why you picked her. The audience knows. This is my idea of giving it to them. All women are alike - they can go to the mirror and see that anytime." The matter was dropped as re-shooting the scene would have cost too much as the studio would have had to rebuild the entire set. Dwan said that his nemesis, studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck, was pleased with the picture. more
Quotes:
Ferdinand de Lesseps:
Oh, Eugenie, darling, I'm leaving for Egypt in an hour and 45 minutes. Will you marry me?
Countess Eugenie de Montijo:
What?
Ferdinand de Lesseps:
I'm going there as secretary to the Consulate. Marry me, come with me. Rene's going for the license.
Countess Eugenie de Montijo:
What license? What are you talking about?
Ferdinand de Lesseps:
The marriage license! Quick, pack your things, we've just time to get to the church.
Countess Eugenie de Montijo:
But I couldn't possibly do a thing like that, you know I couldn't...
Ferdinand de Lesseps:
Don't you understand, I may be gone a year, five years... this may be our last chance!
Countess Eugenie de Montijo:
Oh, Ferdinand, are you insane?
Ferdinand de Lesseps:
No.
[pause]
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Referenced in The James Dean Story (1957) more
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Rule Britannia more
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There could never be a product like this turned out today. The people are just not out there - at least not in the picture business.
Zanuck expressed the opinion that Annabella was the only one of Power's wives good enough for Power. Zanuck was never one to always hit it exactly right on the head but he got it right with this one. Watch these two in this - it's a union of giants!
Loretta Young !!!! Just plainly the most beautiful woman who ever lived. If Eugenie was one tenth this beautiful she deserved to wear a crown and live a hundred years, as the fortune teller predicted, and as Eugenie in fact did. Even Power's co-stars Madeleine Carroll in LLOYDS OF LONDON and Gene Tierney/Frances Farmer in SON OF FURY, ravishing as they all were, were not Young's equal.
Victoria was badmouthed as too prim and proper but according to Zanuck she must have walked out on a few wires or otherwise there would have been some holdups on both the Suez Canal and the telephone (see ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL).
There are so many elements in this that represent the very pinnacle of moviemaking that it would be gilding the lily to begin to enumerate them. We can but savor this thankfully as a flawless treasure; an example of the American commercial movie as an art form in the consummate sense.