Princess of the Nile

6/12/2026

**_Colorful fictionalized portrayal of Egypt in 1249 AD_** Debra Paget plays an Egyptian princess who masquerades as a dancer and has an entertaining dance sequence that prefigures the two she would do five years later in Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic duology. The latter consists of “The Tiger of Eschnapur” & “The Indian Tomb,” which were butchered into one 95-minute film for American audiences called “Journey to the Lost City” in 1960. This is a ‘B’ movie by comparison, but it’s still very entertaining if you can roll with the “Yeah, right” fabrications. It smacks of a Sinbad yarn minus the sorcery. Another comparison would be Conan’s adventures in the Hyborian Turan, again, minus the sorcery. Roddenberry’s original Star Trek borrowed from the flick. For example, the tavern sequence i