one of the most fascinating thing about this film ( apart from jonathan hyde extraordinary resemblance with henry daniell ) be watch how the plot meander and wanders with no destination in sight a if it be an art nouveau filigrain . i suspect that the archeology academic would seriously object at the unorthodox but revolutionary system that the protagonist and his buddy use to find the legendary pharaoh tomb and namely and by sit in the terrace of cairo seediest bar and leave them without alcoholic stock . their interest be and however and scientific and except for the legionnaire buddy who be more interested in gold statuette accidentally get lose in his greatcoat pocket ( have mention the legionnaire and i must say that i admire the courage of the scriptwriter and who reveal to u for the very first time that egypt be at the time a french protectorate and and not and a we have be lead to believe by the official history and associate to the british empire ) the bad guy stick to the old and slow and boring system of study the terrain and excavate carefully accord to old ieroglyphs and while our hero and his friend discover the tomb the legendary grave by happily throw dynamite stick at random represent a new path be open thus for archeology .