Sphinx

About Sphinx

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!

Franklin J. Schaffner's Sphinx is a 1981 mystery thriller film. Its themes are curse, egypt, museum, and archaeologist.

Lesley-Anne Down stars as Erica Baron, Frank Langella as Akmed Khazzan, Maurice Ronet as Yvon Mageot, and John Gielgud as Abdu-Hamdi. It runs 118 minutes and was released in February 1981.

The screenplay is by John Byrum. The film began as a novel.

The Mummy, The Spy Who Loved Me, and The Mummy's Hand make useful companions to Sphinx, all filed under cairo. It carries a PG rating.