One of the most spectacular of the 1950s epics, the director Howard Hawks (BRINGING UP BABY) would seem out of his element, DeMille he's not. He commands an engineer (James Robertson Justice), one of the conquered people of the pharaoh's latest war, to design an impregnable tomb, one that will literally take many years to build. In the 26th century B.C., the pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is consumed with building a burial tomb that will protect him and his treasure after death from invaders and looters.
