Valley of the Kings

2/25/2024

**_High adventure in the Egyptian desert with Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker_** An American woman (Parker) travels to Egypt and enlists a masculine archeologist (Taylor) to assist her in finding the tomb of Ra-Hotep and proof of the biblical account of Joseph. Her Euro-husband is also on hand (Carlos Thompson), but he seems to have a different agenda. "Valley of the Kings" (1954) was inspired by the success of King Solomon's Mines from four years earlier and would influence John Wayne’s "Legend of the Lost" a few years later, which is very similar. "The Mummy's Shroud" came out a decade later, just adding the supernatural element; “The Vengeance of She” is another example from 1968. In the early 80s, “Raiders of the Last Ark” upped the ante with loads of action and some goofiness