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Sergio Leone
Second Unit Director -
Mervyn LeRoy
Director -
Anthony Mann
Second Assistant Director -
Eugene Zador
Orchestrator -
Hugh Hunt
Set Decoration -
A. Arnold Gillespie
Special Effects -
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction -
Robert Surtees
Director of Photography
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CinemaSerf 6/1/2024 5:38:18PM
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...
Abraham Sofaer
PaulChristopher Lee
Chariot Driver (uncredited)Norman Wooland
NervaSophia Loren
Lygia's Slave (uncredited)Elizabeth Taylor
Christian Prisoner in Arena (uncredited)Bud Spencer
Imperial Guard (uncredited)Alfredo Varelli
LucanPeter Ustinov
Nero