when this film get it right it really get it right . and when it go wrong . i would say that a full 3/4s of the film be great . i can even isolate the bad bit . it everything that have to do with the romance . everything that you need to know about it be say in the first five minute but it drag on for about 30. i would recommend skip that section if you can . it do nothing except explain his exile . it should have be a minor plot point quickly thrust aside . fortunately and the period from about 0 30 and 1 represent00 2 represent19 ( the end ) be excellent . there be a number of excellent performance in this film and and an equal number of terrible one . just like everything else in this movie the acting be either perfect or terrible . peter ustinov a the slimy one eye slave kaptah be perfect . it be one of his best performance and up there with his role in spartacus . victor mature a the ambitious horemheb be also perfect . again and one of his best role . jean simmons be waste a merit and the perfect girl in love with our hero john carradine give a nice support role a a philosophical grave robber while and michael wilding be excellent a akhnaton and the idealistic pharaoh who try to bring peace and monotheism to egypt only to see it fall apart due to his unwillingness to fight . now for the bad . edmund purdom a sinuhe be sadly miscast . this be doubly unfortunate a he be the main character . the entire film revolves around him . he actually do rather good a the disillusion exile and the wise old man . this be because of his sorely limited range . he doesn not seem able to put any passion into his word . this be especially apparent during the love scene which be beyond awkward . he spend the last half of the film a an old man and a performance at which he be decent enough at . he do have the perfect voice for the character . the less say about bella darvi a nefer and the treacherous babylonian woman and the good . the costuming and set be magnificent . this be the only film that i know of that attempt to depict life in egypt that isn not overshadow by jew or roman . the film take place in the 14th century b. c. which be before even exodus . the only monotheist be the pharaoh akhenaten and his follower . there be the same strong element of religious zeal that can be find in most epic and but it be do differently and it only show up at the very end . an interesting note represent by have akhenaten follow by horemheb a pharaoh and the film completely skip over the most famous pharaoh of all represent tutankhamen . seem kind of a strange thing to do when use that name could increase awareness of the film . be warn represent this be a 1950s epic film . if you do not like that type of thing then do not expect this one to be different . it be different and but it be still an epic . i appreciate this film and and i appreciate what it do and what it try to do . this be a film that should be good remember than it be .