Director: | Fernando Cerchio |
Starring: | Jeanne Crain Vincent Price Edmund Purdom Amedeo Nazzari Liana Orfei |
Music: | Carlo Rustichelli |
Cinematography: | Massimo Dallamano |
Editing: | Renato Cinquini |
Country: | Italy |
Language: | Italian |
Queen of the Nile (also known as Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile) is a 1961 Italian adventure drama film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom and Amedeo Nazzari.
The film was released in Italian cinemas by Euro International Films in 1961, and grossed 388 millions lire.[1]
The film was generally badly received by critics. In a contemporary review in La Stampa, the film is praised for its visual appearance, especially its colors, sets, and mass scenes, but criticized for its cartoonish dialogues and an overly unconstrained screenplay.[2] Jeffrey Richards wrote: "Despite colourful costumes and sets and an action-packed finale, this was a stilted and one-dimensional affair [...] with a plethora of sub-plots".[3] TV Guide describes it as "one of those countless inferior-quality Italian biblical epics".[4]