The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille

Name: The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille
Genre: Documentary

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2016

1h 28m

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In 1982, Peter Brosnan heard a story about an ancient Egyptian city buried in the California desert. For 30 years, he's been fighting to dig it up.

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Sheri Linden

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With its astute capsule biography of DeMille and firsthand accounts from people who worked with him, the film pays tribute to one of Hollywood's most innovative and commercially successful founding fathers.

Jun 14, 2017

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Brosnan intercuts his own journey through local bureaucracy and unreliable corporate sponsorship with a somewhat dubious biography of DeMille, but despite some chintzy production values, it's still an absorbing story of Hollywood archaeology.

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Oct 29, 2018

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The Lost City of DeMille is a pure delight for cinema historians. This tiny, low budget documentary was thirty plus years in the making and yet captures more than 90 years of film history in its remarkably fun 87 minutes. The history captured in The Lost City of DeMille is that of the director who defined the early days of film and was both progenitor and savior of the art form in its infancy and pubescence. For that alone, The Lost City of DeMille deserves our praise. https://geeks.media/review-the-lost-city-of-demille?_ga=2.887153.1126457623.1513947710-953607229.1513947710

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In 1982, Peter Brosnan heard a story about an ancient Egyptian city buried in the California desert. For 30 years, he's been fighting to dig it up.

Director: Peter Brosnan
Producer: Peter Brosnan, Dan Coplan
Screenwriter: Peter Brosnan
Production Co: Lost City Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 3, 2017
Runtime: 1h 28m

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