La corte de faraón

La corte de faraón

90 mins | Music | June 8, 1944

Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.

La corte de faraón

90 mins | Music | June 8, 1944

La corte de faraón
Remotely based on a famous Spanish zarzuela of 1910, this lavish, daring sex comedy was filmed on a gigantic art deco set that suggests ancient Egypt repurposed for an Astaire and Rogers musical. The Pharaoh, played here as a henpecked husband by the popular comedian Roberto Soto, seeks a virginal slave girl as a bride for his general Potiphar (Fernando Cortés), but Potiphar is impotent and the slave girl (played by Mapy Cortés in a swirl of high-spirited sexuality) has some ideas of her own.
Producers
Original title La corte de faraón
Directors Julio Bracho
Writers Guillermo Perrín, Miguel de Palacios

Cast

Mapy Cortés

as La Lota

Fernando Cortés

as Putifar

Roberto Soto

as Faraón

Alfredo Varela

as Casto José

Ernesto Alonso

as Micerino

Lucila Bowling

as Secretaria de Raquel

Fanny Schiller

as Viuda

Eugenia Galindo

as Viuda

Carmen Delgado

as Viuda