Suez (film)
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Advertisement for the 1957 TV airing of Suez on the NTA Film Network | |
| Directed by | Allan Dwan |
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| Based on | a story by Sam Duncan |
| Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Starring | Tyrone Power Loretta Young Annabella |
| Cinematography | Peverell Marley, A.S.C. |
| Edited by | Barbara McLean |
| Music by | Louis Silvers (musical direction) |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | over $1 million |
Suez is an American romantic drama 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.
Peverell Marley was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, an uncredited Louis Silvers for Best Original Music Score and an uncredited Edmund H. Hansen for Best Sound Recording.