Feature1951·174m·7.1

Quo Vadis

THIS IS THE BIG ONE! The splendor and savagery of the world's wickedest empire! Three hours of spectacle you'll remember for a lifetime!

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After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

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Cast

Robert Taylor

Marcus Vinicius

Deborah Kerr

Lygia

Leo Genn

Petronius

Peter Ustinov

Nero

Patricia Laffan

Poppaea

Finlay Currie

Peter

Abraham Sofaer

Paul of Tarsus

Marina Berti

Eunice

Buddy Baer

Ursus

Felix Aylmer

Plautius

Nora Swinburne

Pomponia

Ralph Truman

Tigellinus

Norman Wooland

Nerva

Peter Miles

Nazarius

Geoffrey Dunn

Terpnos

Nicholas Hannen

Seneca

D.A. Clarke-Smith

Phaon

Rosalie Crutchley

Acte

John Ruddock

Chilo

Arthur Walge

Croton

Details

Status: Released
Original language: English
Languages: English, Italian
Budget: $7.6M
Revenue: $21.0M
Age rating: —
Quality: 4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Crew

Director

Mervyn LeRoy

Writers

S. N. Behrman, Sonya Levien, John Lee Mahin, Henryk Sienkiewicz

Miklós Rózsa

Original Music Composer

William V. Skall

Director of Photography

Robert Surtees

Director of Photography

Ralph E. Winters

Editor

Herschel McCoy

Costume Design

Gallery

Reviews

CinemaSerf

6/1/2024

7.0

Oscar-nominated Peter Ustinov is superb as the Emperor Nero in this depiction of the end of the reign of this flawed megalomanic. His behaviour is only tempered by the clever Leo Genn ("Petronius"), his arbiter of arts who manages by deft use of language and his wits, to keep the lunatic emperor from his worst excesses. Robert Taylor turns in a pretty standard performance as the film's hero "Vinicius" and Deborah Kerr looks stunning, though acts woodenly, as the rather simpering "Lygia". A wonderfully colourful spectacle of a film showing off the costumier and set designers arts to best effect. Miklós Rósza's score is suitably grand as our story gives the rise of Christianity the Hollywood treatment. It does run on a bit long, and I'm sure I spotted Sophia Loren driving a chariot...