sphinx
Director: franklin j. schaffner
Actor: lesley-anne down,frank langella,maurice ronet,john gielgud
Data Published: Wed Feb 11 1981
Genres: Adventure,Mystery,Thriller
Key Words: murder,egyptologist,curse,mummy,bat
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083113/
WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(film)
Description: Sphinx is a movie starring Lesley-Anne Down, Frank Langella, and Maurice Ronet. Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and...
Plot: Dedicated Egyptologist Erica Baron is researching a paper about the chief architect to Pharaoh Seti. Soon after her arrival in Cairo, she witnesses the brutal murder of unscrupulous art dealer Abdu-Hamdi, meets a French journalist named Yeon, and is befriended by Akmed Khazzan, who heads the antiquities division of the United Nations. When she journeys to the Valley of the Kings in Luxor to search a tomb reportedly filled with treasures, she finds herself the target of black marketeers determined to keep the riches themselves.