The Land of the Pharaohs / Rhapsody of Steel | Dimitri Tiomkin

Tracklist

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Pharaohs Triumphal Return to Egypt/Pharaoh and the Queen

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Vashtar, the Architect Is Summoned/The Gods Speak to the People/Burial of the Brave Warriors/The Onwards Are Fed to the Alligators

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Pharaoh Asks Vashtar to Design a Tomb That Cannot Be Robbed/Vashtar Agrees/Pharaoh Is Shown the Prototype of the New Tomb/Pharaoh Summons His People to Prepare Them for the Years of Work Required to Finish the Tomb/The Workers Gather for the Great Project

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The Long Years of Work Begin and Spirits Are High/The Years Pass on With High Spirits/Vashtar Grows Old and His Son Becomes a Man but the Work Is Not Finished/The People Become Dispirited

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Pharaoh Needs More Gold to Build His Tomb and Demands Tribute From Other Nations. Nellifer, Queen of Cyprus Comes to Offer Herself in Place of the Tribute. The Pharaoh Has Her Whipped for Her Insolence, but He Is Intrigued by Her and Gives In. She Becomes His Favorite./To Prove His Strength He Wrestles a Bull and Wins! That Night There Is a Court Dance to Celebrate His Victory

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Nellifer Is Shown Pharaohs' Treasure Room, but She Is Angered When Told That the Best of the Treasure Will Be Buried in the Tomb. She Notices the Guard of the Treasure Is Interested in Her. She Plans to Use Him/Work Progresses and the Tomb Is Almost Finished/Meanwhile, Nellifer Proceeds to Seduce the Guard/Vashtars' Son Realizes That Vashtar Is Partially Blind and Must Be Helped in the Tomb

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It Is Declared That All Who Work in the Tomb Must Now Be Blindfolded, and Led by Priests Whose Tongues Have Been Cut Out So They Will Not Reveal the Secret of the Labyrinth/Pharaoh Comes to Inspect the Work but There Is an Accident and a Stone Falls and Almost Kills Him/He Is Saved by Vashtars Son and Rewards Him by Giving Him the Slave Girl Kira Who Becomes His Wife

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Nellifer Plots to Kill the Queen/The Pharaoh Is Sent to the Desert on Rumors of a Treasure/The Queen Is Killed and Nellifer Is Suspected/Nellifer and the Guard Send an Assassin to Kill Pharaoh/Pharaoh Is Wounded and Returns to the City and Finds Nellifer and Her Lover/Pharaoh Kills Him but Is Himself Mortally Wounded/As He Dies He Realizes That Nellifer Deceived Him

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News of Pharaohs' Death Spreads Through the City/Kira Is Affraid That Her Husband and Vashtar Will Have to Die to Preserve the Secret of the Tomb/The People Mourn for Pharaoh/Nellifer Is Shown to the Throne Room but It Is Empty.Hamar, Pharaohs Right Hand Man Tells Her That She Will Not Be Queen for Thirty Days When Pharaoh Is Laid Into the Tomb

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Kira Cries Because She Does Not Know What Te Future Will Bring/Hamar Tells Vashtar That He and His Son Are Free to Go When the Tomb Is Sealed/Nellifer Starts the Burial

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The Funeral Procession Begins/Nellifer Follows the Priest Into the Pyramid and Orders the Sealing of the Tomb/Nellifer Realizes That She Will Be Buried Alive With the Priests as the Tomb Seals Her Fate/Vashtar Leads His People to Freedom

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Rhapsody of Steel