

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!
Cinematography
Actual Egyptian locations before CGI ruined everything.
Costume
Erica’s safari chic is unhinged aspirational travelwear.
Acting
Langella treating this like Shakespeare, everyone else treating it like paycheck.

Director
Franklin J. Schaffner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schaffner was fired mid-production; the studio brought in reshoot directors, which explains why some scenes look like different movies.
This was peak 'Americans in exotic danger' cinema, released the same year as Raiders of the Lost Ark but with infinitely less self-awareness about who gets to steal artifacts.