Sphinx [1980] [DVD]

Rarely since The Perils of Pauline has so much been endured by a heroine as by Lesley-Anne Down here, playing an Egyptologist who comes up against a gang smuggling artefacts from the Valley of the Kings. After witnessing John Gielgud's demise, she's shot at, nearly raped, attacked by bats, thrown into a dungeon of rotting corpses and has a tomb cave in on her.

As a result she screams a lot, though co-star Frank Langella seems not to hear. Director Franklin J Schaffner, who made Patton, takes this nonsense far too seriously.