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Budget $7,000,000
Running Time
2 hours, 51 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Studio MGM
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• Quo Vadis? (1954)
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Genre: Drama, Religion, Epic, Love, Period Piece, Satire
Tagline: Three Years in the Making! Thousands in the Cast! Filmed in Rome!
Plot: MGM turned Henry Sinkiewicz’s Nobel Prize-winning novel into one of the most extravagant production in film history. The epic tale is set in the decadence and decay of Nero’s Rome, where Christianity is just beginning to foment. Robert Taylor (BILLY THE KID, JOHNNY EAGER) stars as Marcus Vinicius, a Roman military commander who falls in love with Lygia, played by Deborah Kerr (KING SOLOMON’S MINES, THE KING AND I). Lygia has recently converted to Christianity, and Marcus follows suit. The conversion establishes a rift between Marcus and the emperor Nero (Sir Peter Ustinov), who blames the growing religion for the turmoil within his empire, going so far as to throw Christian converts to the lions. But the real appeal of QUO VADIS is the grand Technicolor spectacle of ancient Rome burning, of pagan orgies, of marching armies, and of man-eating lions. Combined with the stunning score by Miklos Rozsa, QUO VADIS is worth watching simply for the orgy of sound and vision it offers.
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Mervyn LeRoy
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Deborah Kerr
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