苏伊士运河 (1938)
Suez
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
演员阵容
- 泰隆·鲍华 — Ferdinand de Lesseps
- Loretta Young — Countess Eugenie de Montijo
- Annabella — Toni Pellerin
- J. Edward Bromberg — Prince Said
- 约瑟夫·希尔德克劳特 — Vicomte Rene De Latour
- Henry Stephenson — Count Mathieu de Lesseps
- Sidney Blackmer — Marquis Du Brey
- 莫里斯·莫斯科维奇 — Mohammed Ali
- 西格·鲁曼 — Sergeant Pellerin
- 奈杰尔·布鲁斯 — Sir Malcolm Cameron
- Miles Mander — Benjamin Disraeli
- George Zucco — Prime Minister
趣闻
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Suez is an American romantic drama film released on October 28, 1938, by 20th Century Fox, with Darryl F. Zanuck in charge of production, directed by Allan Dwan and starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, and Annabella. It is very loosely based on events surrounding the construction, between 1859 and 1869, of the Suez Canal, planned and supervised by French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps. The screenplay is so highly fictionalized that, upon the film's release in France, de Lesseps' descendants sued (unsuccessfully) for libel.
Production
A September 1937 news article reported that Tyrone Power was set to star in this film opposite Simone Simon. Darryl F. Zanuck reported earlier in June that Simon was assigned to the female lead. In March 1938, Zanuck revealed that he had set up a $2,000,000 budget, with recently retired from acting George Arliss, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing the title role in 1929's Disraeli, possibly returning to repeat, in Suez, his fa…
Philip Dunne later called the film "pretty bad".
"Tyrone Power played Ferdinand de Lesseps, the Lee Iaccoca of his day," said Dunne. "So he dug the Suez Canal, so what? My partner Julien Josephson and I invented a love story with the Empress of France (Loretta Young) to keep audiences going. We had to. The man was the world's biggest bore."
400 Arabian horses, 300 camels, and almost as many donkeys, were needed for this film.
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