"HE CHANGED THE MAP of the World!"
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
Social & External
The people behind it
Tyrone Power
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Loretta Young
Countess Eugenie de Montijo
Annabella
Toni Pellerin
J. Edward Bromberg
Prince Said
Joseph Schildkraut
Vicomte Rene De Latour
Henry Stephenson
Count Mathieu de Lesseps
Sidney Blackmer
Marquis Du Brey
Maurice Moscovitch
Mohammed Ali
Sig Ruman
Sergeant Pellerin
Nigel Bruce
Sir Malcolm Cameron
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