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Suez
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Directed by	Allan Dwan
Produced by	Gene Markey (assoc. producer)
Written by	Sam Duncan (story) Philip Dunne Julien Josephson
Starring	Tyrone Power Loretta Young Annabella
Editing by	Barbara McLean
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	October 28, 1938
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Suez is a 1938 film account of the building of the Suez Canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps, played by Tyrone Power. It was so highly fictionalized that de Lesseps' descendants sued (unsuccessfully) for libel.^[1]

It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Cinematography, Original Music Score, and Sound, Recording.

Cast

• 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 as Benjamin Disraeli

References

External links

• Suez at the TCM Movie Database
• Suez at the Internet Movie Database
• Suez at Allmovie