Director: | Jonathan Winfrey |
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Music: | Kevin Kiner |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Network: | Showtime |
Producer: | Julie Corman |
Cinematography: | Nicholas von Sternberg |
Editor: | Louis F. Cioffi |
Runtime: | 90 minutes |
Legend of the Lost Tomb is a 1997 American adventure thriller film directed by Jonathan Winfrey and written by Jeremy Doner, based on the 1983 young adult book Tales of a Dead King by Walter Dean Myers. It premiered on Showtime on May 18, 1997.
Fifteen-year-old John Robie's father is an Egyptologist who goes missing during an excavation in Egypt. After arriving in Egypt to search for his missing father, he meets seventeen-year-old Karen Lacy. The two team up to find clues to John's missing father and to his excavations which included a map to the treasures of the Pharaoh Ramesses II.
While they are on their search, they are pursued by mysterious men who are in search of the map as well.