Queen of the Nile (film)

Queen of the Nile (Italian: Nefertite, regina del Nilo, 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.

Queen of the Nile
Directed by	Fernando Cerchio
Written by	Ottavio Poggi Fernando Cerchio John Byrne
Starring	Jeanne Crain Vincent Price Edmund Purdom Amedeo Nazzari Liana Orfei
Cinematography	Massimo Dallamano
Edited by	Renato Cinquini
Music by	Carlo Rustichelli
Release date	1961 (1961)
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

Plot

Cast

• Jeanne Crain as Tanith / Nefertiti
• Vincent Price as Benakon
• Edmund Purdom as Tumos
• Amedeo Nazzari as Amenophis IV
• Liana Orfei as Merit
• Carlo D'Angelo as Seper
• Alberto Farnese as Dakim
• Clelia Matania as Penaba
• Giulio Marchetti as Meck
• Piero Palermini as Nagor
• Umberto Raho as Zeton
• Luigi Marturano as Melad
• Raf Baldassarre as Mareb

Release

The film was released in Italian cinemas by Euro International Films in 1961, and grossed 388 millions lire.^[1]

Reception

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]