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11 February 1981 (USA) moreTagline:
Beyond the sealed door was the last undiscovered treasure in Egypt - And it's all hers - IF SHE CAN GET OUT ALIVE. morePlot:
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse! | add synopsisNewsDesk:
Seven Scores: Michael J. Lewis - Sphinx(From Daily Film Music Blog. 27 January 2009, 3:09 AM, PST)
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Candidate for one of the worst movies on archaeology ever made moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Lesley-Anne Down | ... | Erica Baron |
 | Frank Langella | ... | Akmed Khazzan |
 | Maurice Ronet | ... | Yeon |
 | John Gielgud | ... | Abdu-Hamdi (as Sir John Gielgud) |
| Vic Tablian | ... | Khalifa |
| Martin Benson | ... | Mohammed |
 | John Rhys-Davies | ... | Stephanos Markoulis |
| Nadim Sawalha | ... | Gamal |
| Tutte Lemkow | ... | Tewfik |
 | Saeed Jaffrey | ... | Selim |
| Eileen Way | ... | Aida |
 | William Hootkins | ... | Don |
| Mark Kingston | ... | Carter |
| James Cossins | ... | Lord Carnaryon |
 | Victoria Tennant | ... | Lady Carnaryon |
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Netherlands:117 min | USA:118 min | UK:118 minLanguage:
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Badly written adaptation of a bad novel and a badly directed film that relies on exotic locations and glitzy set decoration, featuring a beautiful "Egyptologist" who has never before been to Egypt, who takes a taxi from the Nile Hilton to the Cairo Museum (next door to each other), and goes into the tomb of Tutankhamun with a Polaroid camera to "do research". (If the public does not understand why this is laughable, they deserve this film). The title "Sphinx" has nothing to do with the plot, which is loosely about the discovery of a lost tomb. Not exactly PC because all the "good" Egyptians are played by Europeans and the "bad" Egyptians are played by Egyptians. In the opening credits the cast names are spelled out in hieroglyphs, which seems to be the extent of the research wasted on this turkey.