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Suez is a american film of genre Drama directed by Allan Dwan released in USA on 28 october 1938 with Tyrone Power

Suez (1938)

Suez
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Released in USA 28 october 1938
Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Adventure,    Historical,    Romance
Rating65% 3.29043.29043.29043.29043.2904

Suez is an American film released on October 28, 1938 by 20th Century Fox, with Darryl F. Zanuck in charge of production, directed by Allan Dwan and starring Tyrone Power, Loretta Young and Annabella. It is very loosely based on events surrounding the construction, between 1859 and 1869, of the Suez Canal, planned and supervised by French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps. The screenplay is so highly fictionalized that, upon the film's release in France, de Lesseps' descendants sued (unsuccessfully) for libel.

It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Cinematography (Peverell Marley), Original Music Score (uncredited Louis Silvers) and Sound Recording (uncredited Edmund H. Hansen).

Synopsis

During a tennis match in Paris between Ferdinand de Lesseps (Tyrone Power) and his friend Vicomte Rene de Latour (Joseph Schildkraut), the enthusiastic admiration of Countess Eugenie de Montijo (Loretta Young) for de Lesseps attracts the attention of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (Leon Ames). Bonaparte sees to it that both she and de Lesseps are invited to his reception. At the party, a fortuneteller predicts that Eugenie will have a troubled life, but also wear a crown, and that de Lesseps will dig a ditch. Entranced by Eugenie's beauty, Bonaparte arranges for his romantic rival to be assigned to a diplomatic post in Egypt, joining his father, Count Mathieu de Lesseps (Henry Stephenson), the Consul-General. De Lesseps impulsively asks Eugenie to marry him immediately, but she turns him down.

Actors

Tyrone Power

(Ferdinand de Lesseps)Loretta Young

(Countess Eugenie de Montijo)Annabella

(Toni Pellerin)Leon Ames

(Napoleon III - Emperor of France)J. Edward Bromberg

(Prince Said)
And :
Joseph Schildkraut
Henry Stephenson
Sidney Blackmer
Sig Ruman
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