In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.

Edmund Purdom
as Sinuhe

Victor Mature
as Horemheb

Peter Ustinov
as Kaptah

Jean Simmons
as Merit

Gene Tierney
as Baketamon

Bella Darvi
as Nefer

Michael Wilding
as Akhnaton

Judith Evelyn
as Taia

Henry Daniell
as Mekere

John Carradine
as Grave Robber
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Edmund Purdom plays the title role in this scalpel-and-sandal melodrama that may be loosely based on "The Tale of Sinuhe" from the 12th and 13th dynasties (c. 1900 BC) as a physician and his friend who encounter the Pharaoh (Michael Wilding) in the desert and rescue him from a lion after he has had ...