Secret of the Sphinx

Sep 4, 1964

1h 35m

★ 6.6

Overview

Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too obvious.

Genres

Adventure

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Top Films Productions

Egyptian General Company for International Film Production

Italcine

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Cast

Thomas

Tony Russel

Hélène Blomberg

Maria Perschy

Martha (as Manuela Kent)

Maria Laura Rocca

Green (as Juan Desny)

Ivan Desny

Achmed

Salah Zulfikar

(as Tor Altmayer)

Tullio Altamura

Tchurov

Evar Maran

Alain Nol

Giuseppe Fortis

Joe Kamel

Franco Ressel

Salah Mansour

Said Abou Bakr

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