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43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
About the Korean Version, September 20, 2005
This DVD version is letterbox, but that's about all one can appreciate in this edition. Picture quality doesn't even match the VHS version. Large crowd scenes have characteristic jiggle common to VHS. Focus is not sharp and crisp.
I compared my VHS with the DVD and the VHS actually had better picture quality, albeit pan & scan full-screen. I would wait for the studio edition of this DVD (if it ever happens.)
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
LAND OF THE PHAROAHS EXTENDED EDITION, January 18, 2007
COME ON WARNERS, PLEASE RESTORE AND REMASTER LAND OF THE PHAROAHS FOR OVERDUE DVD RELEASE.
THE LASER DISC WAS VERY BLUE BUT WE THEN AT LEAST HAD A LEGAL WIDESCREEN COPY FOR OUR NOW OUTDATED LASER PLAYERS.
ALSO, AS WITH A STAR IS BORN (1954), PLEASE CARRY OUT A SEARCH FOR THE LOST FOOTAGE EXCISED FROM LAND OF THE PHAROAHS PRIOR TO ORIGINAL RELEASE
IN 1955. TWENTY OR SO MINUTES WERE DELETED FROM THE RELEASE PRINT AND IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL TO SEE THE FULL VERSION FOR THE FIRST TIME.
THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF WE FANS OF FILMS PRODUCED IN OR SET IN EGYPT, AND THOUGH WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE DVD RELEASE OF 1980'S SPHINX, ANOTHER REVIEWER HAS MENTIONED THE AS-YET-UNAVAILABLE, PROPER STUDIO DVD VERSIONS OF THE EGYPTIAN AND VALLEY OF THE KINGS.
ALL OF THESE FILMS HAVE HUGE FAN BASES SO PLEASE GRANT OUR WISHES FOR THEIR RESURRECTION, RESTORATION AND RELEASE TO THE HOME VIEWING MARKET FOR THEY ARE ALL FILMS THAT INVITE REPEATED VIEWINGS AND NOT JUST A ONCE ONLY VISIT.
THAT WE STILL WANT THEM FIFTY YEARS AFTER FIRST RELEASE IS PROOF ENOUGH.
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Long Overdue For Widescreen Restoration DVD (Screenplay By William Faulkner) , November 5, 2006
Seems strange that this movie is still gathering "Star Dust" on 'Time/Warner Film Vault Library' when it carries an screenplay gemstone, written by no other than the great American literary genius: WILLIAM FAULKNER. While sadly now, only poor Korean copies are circulating the internet for the sale of this classic.
I only wish that this film, with some help from us, that by our favorable votes on this review, would let the studio know that we need it now finally released on Anamorphic Widescreen DVD format fully restored, preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition in Cinemascope. Along with the movies "Samson and Delilah," "The Egyptian" and "Valley of the Kings (A Warner Bro. Movie)," all of which are also classic films been sorrow ignored and neglected by those people in charge, at the Studios Corporate Suites.
But for all of us who love and appreciate classic Hollywood's movies of the 1950th vintage, we fell that it is now time for the Movie Studios Executives and in particular those at "Time/Warner" to take time, do please listen to our requests and fully remaster fully restored on DVC copies of all these clasic movies. Ending once and for all this benign neglect to these wonderful feature films of that era.
Director Howard Hawks, worked brilliantly on this large scale epic, a gigantic production filmed on location in Egypt, using thousands of extras. This movie plot takes place during the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza, for Pharaoh Khufu, played here by Jack Hawkings, who also starred on the epic film "Ben Hur."
Also as the pharaoh's mistress second wife, which is been played by the sexy "Joan Collins" (in one of her first starring roles long before her "Dynasty's character") whose insatiable lust and greed, leads to murder, made worth it buying and seen this movie. Which beside all this wonderfull team of Director/Stars, also at the same time, like an extra unique BONUS features the unique screenplay by one of "America Greatest Intellectuals," our fabulous literary genius "William Faulkner."
It is a very entertaining film, that along with the story line, feature and shows the saga of an slaved people which finally it is allowed to return to their promise land, with their fellow architect, who designed the 'Seven Wonder of the World,' after the death of the conquering Pharaoh. All of them set free by a benevolent high priest, upon the completion of the Pyramid as this wonderfull film ends.
"The Land Of The Pharaohs" with detailed sets including the pyramid inner labyrinth, booby traped so no one can learn its secrets, and vast desert vistas fill the screen and astonish the eye.
Am sure that the late Henry Luce, (Yale Alumnus founder of "Time/Life Inc.") would not have wasted a minute of his time, if he would still be alive and in charge at "Time/Warner," to see it remastered in all its glory. Am sure that Mr. Luce, would have ordered his workforce the unconditional release on "DVD Widescreen" of this classic film; if he would have notice this request/review or just bothered to see it by himself at one of the screening rooms at Warner Bros.
SO LET IT ROLL SKULLS AND BONES. Get back to work guys, and last but not least "THANKS" in advance from all of us for doing so.
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