After Julius Caesar's death, Marc Antony and Cleopatra met in Assyria for political purposes. While there, Cleopatra left her daughter Shila with the Assyrians rulers. Shila was raised by and as one of the Assyrian royals. In the years following the death of Marc Antony and Cleopatra, Egypt is in turmoil from their evil and mentally ill Pharaoh Nemorat. Nemorat's Queen Mother, Tegi, wanted her son Pharaoh Nemorat and the Princess Shila to marry in order to unite Egypt and Assyria. Shila rejected Nemorat and he took some poison then died. Now the Queen Mother Tegi has Shila imprisoned for the death of her son. The royal physician, Resi, is in love with Shila and wants to help her. Tegi's younger son, Kefren, is now next in line for the throne. Now Resi and Shila must risk all for their love of one another. Resi has a plan to get the Princess Shila out of prison before she is put to death by order of the Egyptian Queen Mother Tegi.This is a fairly good "B" historical drama. It's not great but it did hold my interest fairly well, I was surprised by how pleasant it was. The first half of the film I did find boring but it picked up about 1/2 through it.4.5/10

Cleopatra, after the civil war that followed the assassination of Caesar, met with Marc Antony in Assyria where they planned the defense of Egypt against the Romans. Before leaving, Cleopatra entrusted her young daughter, Shila, to the rulers of Assyria to be brought up as their own. After Marc Antony's defeat and Cleopatra's death, Egypt, for the next twenty years, was torn apart and ruled by a youthful Pharaoh, Nemorat, with his despot Queen Mother, Tegi, who desired to unite both kingdoms and strengthen her son's rule by conquering Assyria and making Shila, now a beautiful woman, his queen.Sounds intriguing, right?Not sure what the budget was for this period piece, but it's tedious

Looking much as she did in "The Ten Commandments", Debra Paget points out here that movie costume designers didn't think that fashion had changed between the days of Moses and post Cleopatra days a thousand years apart. The ridiculous story has Cleopatra with an alleged daughter Shila given up to the Assyrians to raise who becomes against her will the new Pharaoh's wife and is accused of his poisoning after refusing to make love to him. The fact that not only is this Pharaoh (Corrado Pani) totally insane but possibly gay makes the film even more ridiculous with his overly possessive mother (Yvette Lebon) standing over everything he does while it is obvious all the time who was responsible. Throw in the doctor (Ettore Manni) who must save Shila from being buried alive with the dead Pharaoh's rotting corpse and you have one laughably macabre plot.Poorly photographed and dubbed into English, this film does at least try to make itself look like it attempted to give a true ancient Egyptian feel to the proceedings. While historically speaking the film is utter tripe, at least the film doesn't utilize phony British accents as Hollywood did to dub the performers, and some of the props momentarily had me convinced that there was a slight semblance of authenticity to what they were trying to dramatize.

I remember this film being on TV as a movie, which my mother didn't like, so I never got a chance to see it for over 40 years until now. I notice that this Italian movie is probably not about Cleopatra's Daughter at all. Debra Paget somewhat fresh from "The Ten Commandments" again revisits ancient Egpyt in this classic. The title of the Italian original is "Sepolchro dei re," "Sepulchre of the King" shows that this film could be about a New Kingdom pharaoh (16th to the 11th centuries B.C.) rather than about a Ptolemaic one (4th to the 1st centuries B.C.). I liked the film, and I was glad to be finally able to see it. A famous reviewer says that the film is sadistic.