Sunday, April 22, 2012

Photo of the Day

Edmund Purdom is an old man reminiscing about his life in THE EGYPTIAN

Ed The Egyptian!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

According to a Jean Simmons interview: Edmund Purdom replaced Marlon [Brando] and he couldn’t bring any conviction to the script. Then when Michael Wilding walked out with that huge headdress Peter Ustinov said he looked like a gigantic salt shaker and we all dissolved in laughter.

PEPLUM cinema said...

I think Ed is great in this. He played his role to understated perfection. Marlon would have overacted the whole thing.