![]() ![]() Egypt's plight has come to the attention of Prince Haidi (Jeffrey Hunter), a typical beardless Arab prince of the era - the 1950s, that is. Yes, they're Mongols in all but name - even their costumes are more Mongol than Arabic, but for the usual arbitrary Hollywood reasons they're Bedouins, and they're making life miserable for the common folk. The setting this time is not the Egypt of the Pharaohs or of Cleopatra, but the Islamic Egypt of the exact year 1249, albeit an Islamic Egypt where people still worship "Mother Isis." Egypt's ruler is a subject of the Caliph of Baghdad, but has grown dependent on Bedouin mercenaries led by a general named Rama Khan (Michael Rennie!) and a spiritual leader called "the Shaman" (Edgar Barrier). Princess of the Nile is the sort of film nearly every studio felt obliged to make in those days: the relatively cheap programmer set in some colorful but not too well known period of history. Fronted by Leonard Goldstein, Panoramic drew on Fox contract talent who may have felt themselves slumming against their will, if Harmon Jones's pseudo-historical quasi-epic is any indication of the run of the mill. In the early 1950s, Twentieth-Century Fox, the home of Cinemascope, released films from a company called Panoramic Productions, which were filmed in the old standard ratio. ![]()
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