- Egypt supplies the backdrop for a Frenchman's triumph: the canal is conceived, funded, and driven entirely by de Lesseps, while the most prominent Egyptian, Prince Said, is sketched as an indolent heir. Egyptians get no creative part in the engineering feat performed on their own land.
Suez (1938)
film
- Distributor
- TCF
- Cast
- Tyrone Power. Loretta Young, Annabella, Maurice Moscovitch, J. Edward Bloomberg
- Production notes
- SP: Julian Josephson and Philip Dunne ( True Confessions ). In his autobiography, Dunne describes the film as “pretty bad.”