- Suez (film)
Infobox Film
name = Suez
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director =Allan Dwan
producer =Gene Markey (assoc. producer)
writer =Sam Duncan (story)
Philip DunneJulien Josephson
starring =Tyrone Power Loretta Young
Annabella
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released =October 28 1938
runtime = 104 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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amg_id = 1:112188
imdb_id = 0030811"Suez" is a 1938 film account of the building of the
Suez Canal byFerdinand de Lesseps , played byTyrone Power . It was so highly fictionalized that de Lesseps' descendants sued (unsuccessfully) forlibel . [cite web |url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:112188 |title=Suez Plot Synopsis |publisher=Allmovie |accessdate=2008-04-22]It was nominated for three
Academy Awards : Cinematography, Original Music Score, and Sound, Recording.Cast
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Tyrone Power as Ferdinand de Lesseps
*Loretta Young as Countess Eugenie de Montijo
*Annabella as Toni Pellerin. She and Power married in 1939.
*J. Edward Bromberg as Prince Said
*Joseph Schildkraut as Vicomte Rene de Latour
*Henry Stephenson as Count Mathieu de Lesseps
*Sidney Blackmer as Marquis Du Brey
*Maurice Moskovitch as Mohammed Ali (as Maurice Moscovich)
*Sig Ruman as Sergeant Pellerin (as Sig Rumann)
*Nigel Bruce as Sir Malcolm Cameron
*Miles Mander asBenjamin Disraeli References
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*tcmdb title|id=91834|title=Suez
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