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martyrs, but he cannot change the emperor's mind. Then, tired of Nero's insanity and suspecting that he may be about to turn on him, too, Petronius composes a letter to Nero expressing his derision for the emperor (which he previously had concealed to avoid being murdered by him) and commits suicide by severing an artery in his wrist. His slavegirl Eunice (who has fallen in love with him) elects to die with him, despite being freed. The
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British and a few Italian (Marina Berti, Alfredo Varelli, Roberto Ottaviano), Robert Taylor was certainly not the only American. Others included Buddy Baer (Ursus), Peter Miles (Nazarius), Arthur Walge (Croton), and William Tubbs (Anaxander). Also, several were among the
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and that it had been borrowed from the
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Nero ... The way I see him ... He's a guy plays with himself nights.... At the time I thought it a preposterous assessment, but a little later I was not so sure. It was a profundity at its most workaday level, and it led me to the eventual conviction that no nation can make Roman pictures as well as
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and blames the
Christians, Marcus sets out to rescue Lygia and her family. Nero arrests them, along with all the other Christians, and condemns them to be slaughtered in his Circus; some are killed by lions. Petronius, Nero's most trusted advisor, warns him that the Christians will be celebrated as
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was negative, writing that the film "demonstrates how inordinately boring the convention of size and spectacle can be, when divorced from taste, feeling, and, to a surprising extent, creative talent. The film is unimaginatively directed, at a very slow pace in keeping with the general larger than
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and exterior of Nero's palace, a whole section of
Ancient Rome, a great bridge, and the Plautius villa. The manufacture of thousands of costumes for extras began, along with drapes and carpets, metal and glass goblets, and 10 chariots. Official permission was granted to refurbish a section of the
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worked on the film as an uncredited second-unit director. He spent 24 nights (four working weeks) on the
Cinecitta backlot shooting scenes for the Burning of Rome sequence. However, he was not the co-director of the film, as some of his admirers have claimed. The soundstage scenes for the same
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1198:"had nothing to match the horrendous and morbid spectacles of human brutality and destruction that Director Mervyn LeRoy has got in this. But within and around these visual triumph and rich imagistic displays is tediously twined a hackneyed romance that threatens to set your teeth on edge."
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from author Henryk
Sienkiewicz's heirs. (At the same time they had to buy the 1924 silent-screen version.) The company originally intended to make the film in Italy, but the outbreak of WWII caused it to be postponed. After the war, production was restarted. A lease was obtained on the huge
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for 6 consecutive weeks and 11 weeks in total. According to MGM's records, during its initial theatrical release, it earned $ 11,143,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $ 9,894,000 elsewhere, making it the highest-grossing film of 1951, and resulting in a profit to the studio of $ 5,440,000.
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declared, "For sheer opulence, massiveness of sets, size of cast, and beauty of
Technicolor photography, no picture ever produced matches 'Quo Vadis'. It is a super-collosal spectacle in every sense of the meaning, and on that score alone it is worth a premium price of admission."
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rushes were being sent back to
Hollywood for cutting at the same time as they were being cut back in Rome ... I set to work so that at least something was ready, even if it had to be modified later. I worked with the chief supervising editor,
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negotiated to form the R.A.M. Corporation later in 1937, which was ultimately aborted. This business alliance with the Fascist state horrified 1930s Hollywood moguls and ultimately led to Roach defecting from his MGM distribution deal to
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issued gramophone discs, in three different editions and speeds, of 12 tracks from the original soundtrack music (without sound effects). Consequently, much of the original recorded score is still available in various formats. In 2009,
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chariot, holding a victory laurel above his head, and repeating "Remember thou art only a man." Ustinov recalled how he was cast as Nero in 1949: "An exciting proposition came my way when I was 28 years old. MGM were going to remake
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for box-office performance. It has size, scope, splash, and dash, giving for the first time in a long while credence to the now-clichéd 'super-colossal' term. This is a super-spectacle in all its meaning." Edwin Schallert of the
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wrote in a mixed review, "Here is a staggering combination of cinema brilliance and sheer banality, of visual excitement and verbal boredom, of historical pretentiousness and sex." Crowther thought that even
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as Marcus Vinicius. When the production changed hands the following year, the roles went to Deborah Kerr and Robert Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor had an uncredited cameo role as a Christian in the Circus prisons.
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called it "a fabulously entertaining movie. Though the expansive, expensive film from the celebrated novel runs over three hours on the Palace screen, you won't believe you've been there nearly that long."
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the Americans ... The inevitable vulgarities of the script contributed as much to its authenticity as its rare felicities. I felt then as I feel today, in spite of the carping of critical voices, that
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The crowd revolts, now firmly believing that Nero, not the Christians, is responsible for the burning of Rome. Nero flees to his palace, where he strangles Poppaea, blaming her for inciting him to
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of the mob's demands. The decision enrages the crowd and Marcus's loyal troop members rush to the arena to save the three. Marcus accuses Nero of burning Rome and announces that General
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of AD 64. The screen model looks nothing like the museum model. (It was almost certainly constructed especially for the film – perhaps by its special effects model-maker,
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declared it "one of the most tremendous if not the greatest pictures ever made ... Its pictorial lavishness has never been equaled in any other production."
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has also been arrested after returning to Rome in response to a sign from the Lord, and he marries Marcus and Lygia in the Circus prisons. Peter is later
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turned down the role of Marcus Vinicius very early in the film's production history because he thought he would look ridiculous in Roman costumes.
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played at such a low level as to be indistinguishable ... It was a great disappointment to me." However, he was mistaken when he wrote: "
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and persecution of Christians in the final years of the
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1543:Top 10 Films
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1418:Miklós Rózsa
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781:Robin Hughes
749:Sophia Loren
743:: including
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725:as Anaxander
693:John Ruddock
636:Ralph Truman
618:Felix Aylmer
606:Marina Berti
574:Emperor Nero
555:Deborah Kerr
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401:Best Picture
399:, including
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378:Christianity
374:Roman Empire
371:
355:Miklós Rózsa
347:Sophia Loren
343:Felix Aylmer
335:Marina Berti
311:Deborah Kerr
299:Sonya Levien
291:Mervyn LeRoy
267:ancient Rome
250:
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243:$ 21 million
207:Running time
184:Release date
177:Loew's, Inc.
151:Miklós Rózsa
109:Deborah Kerr
77:
64:Sonya Levien
50:Mervyn LeRoy
3183:Two Seconds
3143:Broadminded
3028:Harold Teen
2889:Adaptations
2875:Saint Peter
2431:"Quo Vadis"
2317:"Quo Vadis"
2204:Archive.org
2041:Double Life
1775:"Quo Vadis"
1657:Mario Lanza
1591:MGM Records
1583:Culver City
1518:Ginko Digi
1514:(producers)
1508:(conductor)
1274:Nominee(s)
1122:Culver City
957:Clark Gable
951:John Huston
777:Bud Spencer
656:as Nazarius
654:Peter Miles
592:Saint Peter
431:Scene from
351:Bud Spencer
287:Technicolor
211:171 minutes
91:Produced by
46:Directed by
3687:1951 films
3681:Categories
3648:Mary, Mary
3541:Rose Marie
3466:Homecoming
3271:Hi Nellie!
2954:Quo vadis?
2924:(TV, 1985)
2921:Quo Vadis?
2897:Quo Vadis?
2880:Saint Paul
2845:Tigellinus
2828:Characters
2779:Letterboxd
2685:2022-03-09
2662:2017-02-11
2391:2017-02-11
2158:2022-03-17
1846:2022-03-17
1784:2022-03-17
1762:five times
1723:References
1663:Home media
1547:9th Place
1506:Nic Raine
1502:(composer)
1459:Nominated
1442:Nominated
1422:Nominated
1407:Nominated
1392:Nominated
1377:Nominated
1358:Nominated
1328:Nominated
1318:Nominated
1300:Nominated
1026:in 1938.)
892:as Poppaea
842:Appian Way
795:Production
761:Marika Aba
662:as Terpnos
640:Tigellinus
612:Buddy Baer
463:burns Rome
444:XIV Gemina
339:Buddy Baer
240:Box office
195:1951-11-02
158:Production
3509:Quo Vadis
3458:Desire Me
3111:Top Speed
3052:Hot Stuff
2929:Quo Vadis
2913:Quo Vadis
2905:Quo Vadis
2820:Quo Vadis
2773:Quo Vadis
2762:Quo Vadis
2749:Quo Vadis
2738:Quo Vadis
2727:Quo Vadis
2716:Quo Vadis
2679:Quo Vadis
2545:0223-5102
2440:March 17,
2358:19 August
2328:April 19,
1990:11 August
1707:Epic film
1650:Quo Vadis
1614:Quo Vadis
1575:Mesomedes
1354:Hugh Hunt
1271:Category
1148:Reception
1115:Holy Year
1111:Quo Vadis
1092:Via Appia
1072:Quo Vadis
1050:Quo Vadis
1045:Cleopatra
1019:Hal Roach
992:Quo Vadis
943:Quo Vadis
904:as Eunice
830:Cinecitta
825:Quo Vadis
818:Quo Vadis
704:as Miriam
608:as Eunice
565:Petronius
509:scapegoat
456:Petronius
433:Quo Vadis
263:epic film
260:religious
251:Quo Vadis
137:Edited by
79:Quo Vadis
29:Quo Vadis
3036:Oh, Kay!
2732:AllMovie
2352:Archived
1903:Take One
1701:See also
1314:Leo Genn
1100:Bolgheri
1036:(1956),
868:Leo Genn
859:as Lygia
814:Leo Genn
695:as Chilo
631:Pomponia
622:Plautius
614:as Ursus
561:Leo Genn
557:as Lygia
386:Claudius
315:Leo Genn
224:Language
147:Music by
113:Leo Genn
101:Starring
74:Based on
2940:Related
2752:at the
2741:at the
2550:19 July
2237:Variety
2191:Variety
2136:5 April
2102:5 April
1941:"Photo"
1887:Dear Me
1673:Blu-ray
1637:Ben-Hur
1277:Result
1201:Variety
1039:Ben-Hur
999:Filming
983:Dear Me
938:Triumph
881:as Nero
848:Casting
488:, poet
478:Poppaea
442:of the
265:set in
227:English
216:Country
193: (
160:company
3667:(1968)
3659:(1966)
3651:(1963)
3643:(1962)
3635:(1961)
3627:(1961)
3619:(1960)
3600:(1959)
3592:(1958)
3584:(1958)
3576:(1956)
3568:(1956)
3560:(1955)
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