The Throne of Tyre
AIMDb Rating
38K
Your Rating
Popularity
6
“The seas obeyed his fathers. The throne would obey him.”
Across two and a half decades of intrigue, exile, and reconquest, an exiled Phoenician prince makes his return to the throne of the merchant city of Tyre — only to discover that the empire his father built on silver and cedar has been rebuilt by his uncle on something far older and stranger. A sweeping, three-hour Hollywood biblical-era epic, complete with intermission, in the grand DeMille tradition.
- Director
- Norman Vasilek
- Writers
- Norman Vasilek · Edward Hollis
- Stars
- Charles Berkely · Roxanne Selden · Donovan Boyd ›
Top Cast (6)
Charles Berkely
Ahirom of Tyre
Roxanne Selden
Princess Eshmunazar
Donovan Boyd
King Hiram
Gladys Sherwood
Queen-Mother Anath
Maximus Lange
General Bodashtart
Eli Wexlin
High Priest Mago
User Reviews
5 reviewsA grand old picture
by classics_only
Three hours, an intermission, and one of the great matte-painting setups of the 1950s. Charles Berkely chews scenery in a way only mid-century leading men could and the film is better for it. Roxanne Selden is luminous.
Lavish if creaky
by matinee_archive
Like all biblical-era epics of the era, it would benefit from being twenty minutes shorter and fifteen percent less stately. Still, the harbor-of-Tyre sequence is genuinely spectacular.
Hasn't aged perfectly
by modernist_picks
The casting choices and pacing are products of their time and stay there. The set design, however, is still breathtaking. Watch it for the visuals and forgive the rest.
They don't make them like this
by epic_devotee
I will defend the three-hour biblical-era Hollywood epic until I die. This is one of the prouder examples. The battle outside the gates is some of the finest large-scale staging of the decade.
A long Sunday afternoon
by casual_classics
Settle in with a sandwich. It's exactly what it looks like and it does what it does pretty well. Could lose twenty-five minutes and improve. Donovan Boyd is having the time of his life.
Details
- Release date
- November 19, 1959 (United States)
- Country of origin
- United States
- Language
- English
- Also known as
- El Trono de Tiro · Le Trône de Tyr · Der Thron von Tyrus
- Filming locations
- MGM Studios, Culver City, California, USA · Almería, Andalusia, Spain · Tabernas Desert, Andalusia, Spain
- Production companies
- Metro Crown Pictures · Vasilek-Hollis Productions
Box office
- Budget
- $9,800,000 (estimated)
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,200,000
- Gross US & Canada
- $28,400,000
- Gross worldwide
- $44,800,000
Technical specs
- Runtime
- 3h 4m
- Color
- Color
- Sound mix
- Dolby Digital
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
