in comparison to other sand and sandal fare and the egyptian leave much to be desire . the film be very loosely base upon mika waltari well research novel and which center around the egyptian physician sinhue adventure at the court of akhnaton as well a his travel throughout canaan and minoan crete and africa . unfortunately and due to the moral stricture of the time and much of sinhue story ( which be rife with romantic and sexual exploit ) remain on the cutting room floor and instead and the audience be treat to reel and reel of victor mature wooden acting . even gene tierney a lead lady staple of the time can not manage to look nor act her best in this flick and give a rather somnambulistic performance which can only be justify by the fact that the actress be have some serious psychiatric problem at the time . there be a great deal of rhetoric and theological machination over the idea of monotheism vs. polytheism and but michael wilding be so tiring a the revolutionary akhnaton and that one be surely cheer for someone to off him and restore the old religion before the second reel . my advice represent buy the book from e bay and rent something more entertaining like solomon and sheba and then call it a night .