Suez
HE CHANGED THE MAP of the World!
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DVD-R Details
- ASPECT RATIO 4:3 (FULL SCREEN)
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 20, 2012
- Originally Released: 1938
- Label: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, Joseph Schildkraut & J. Edward Bromberg | |
Directed by | Allan Dwan & Otto Brower | |
Screenwriting by | Julien Josephson & Philip Dunne | |
Composition by | Louis Silvers & David Raksin | |
Director of Photography: | J. Peverell Marley |
Entertainment Reviews:
62%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 65
Rating: B- --
The historical drama suffers for being undramatic.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A remarkable piece of historical production, with, however, considerably more emphasis on production than on history.
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Maclean's Magazine
Description by OLDIES.com:
Tyrone Power stars as an engineer and son of a French nobleman who conceives of a canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas with political betrayal, tribal attacks, and the harsh elements as a backdrop.
Product Description:
This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century French politics and the building of the Suez Canal. Tyrone Power stars as Ferdinand de Lesseps, an engineer and son of a French nobleman (Harry Stephenson). At the start of the film, he is in love with Eugenie (Loretta Young), but so is the French President Louis Napoleon (Leon Ames). After his father is appointed French consul to Egypt, the younger de Lesseps travels there and conceives the idea of a canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas. Back in France, he is promised help by Eugenie, now Napoleon's mistress, in exchange for Count de Lesseps' agreement to dissolve the government temporarily. Napoleon then declares himself emperor, making Eugenie his empress. The elder de Lesseps dies of shock at the political betrayal, while the younger de Lesseps starts building the canal, overcoming attacks by tribal people and severe heat. France cuts off backing, and de Lesseps has to get help from England to finish the project. A sandstorm injures de Lesseps, and his French-Egyptian lover Toni (Annabella) straps him to a post to save him, sacrificing her own life for the canal. Power and Annabella married each other after the film. The descendants of de Lesseps sued 20th Century Fox for libel, but lost.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 30,960
- UPC: 024543810711
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item