Valley of the Kings is a 1954 adventure film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was written and directed by Robert Pirosh from a screenplay by Robert Pirosh and Karl Tunberg, "suggested by historical data" in the book Gods, Graves, and Scholars by C. W. Ceram. The music was by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography by Robert Surtees.
The film stars Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker with Carlos Thompson, Kurt Kasznar, Victor Jory and Samia Gamal.
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Valley of the Kings is a 1954 adventure film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was written and directed by Robert Pirosh from a screenplay by Robert Pirosh and Karl Tunberg, "suggested by historical data" in the book Gods, Graves, and Scholars by C. W. Ceram. The music was by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography by Robert Surtees.
The film stars Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker with Carlos Thompson, Kurt Kasznar, Victor Jory and Samia Gamal.
The title of the film, Valley of the Kings, refers to the valley on the west bank of the Nile, in Egypt, where the tombs of the Ancient Egyptian kings are located.
MGM bought the rights to the archaeology text Gods, Graves and Scholars for "protection purposes," as it contained a chapter titled "Robbers in the Valley of the Kings" which might have been seen as having influenced the film's script.
The film was shot on location in Cairo, Luxor, Faiyûm, Suez, the Libyan desert and at the Pyramids of Giza Egypt. Additional filming took place in El...
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