Before 300... Before Gladiator... Before Ben-Hur... There Was Quo Vadis. Rome burns. Nero fiddles. Christianity rises. And moviegoers turned out in throngs for this years-in-the-making film colossus boasting eight Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and featuring 110 speaking parts 30 000 participants and a filmed-on-location panoply of marching legions magisterial pageantry and massive spectacle that includes the martyrdom of Christians thrown to the lions before cheering Coliseum throngs. Robert Taylor plays the Legion commander whose love for a Christian... slave girl (Deborah Kerr) crosses the divide between Empire and a sect with a higher loyalty. Presiding over all is Nero (Peter Ustinov). He is Caesar madman murderer - an imperial ruler of the spectacular and spectacularly doomed glory that was Rome. [show more]
At long last, not only are we allowed the pleasure of seeing this great MGM spectacle on DVD, but also in a stunning BLU Ray release!
This was MGM's most expensive movie ever after "Gone with the Wind" and when initially released in the West End, ran for two years at the Rialto cinema in Leicester Square!
Memorable not only for its fabulous sets and costumes, but also for an unforgettable portrayal from Peter Ustinov as the demented emperor Nero and a superb score from maestro composer Miklos Rosza.
(I was fortunate to meet this gentle man at a film concert in London and he told me that from the many scores he composed for films this was his special favourite and the score reflects the huge amount of research which Dr Rozsa carried out for his composition.)
Deborah Kerr never looked more beautiful than here as the lovely Christian Lygia and Robert Taylor is suitably dashing as Roman legion commander, Marcus Vinicius, who falls madly in love with Lygia, despite their conflicting views on Christianity.
Many sequences stay in the mind-- the burning of Rome with its thousands of extras attempting to flee the city, the triumphal procession of the Roman soldiers watched by a huge and excited crowd, the Christians being thrown to the lions in the arena and the tense fight between Ursus the slave, portrayed by Buddy Baer and a frenzied bull, while a terrified Lygia who is tied to a stake watches in helpless horror.
Add to these the fabulous feast and orgy sequence in Nero's court with exotic dances, savage wrestling contest and witty dialogue and you have a true classic, which 58 years after its first release is still as arresting and involving as ever!
If you enjoyed "Ben Hur", "Spartacus" and "King of Kings", "Quo Vadis" is your kind of film and they definitely don't make movies like this anymore!!
If you don't yet have a Blu Ray player, then grab yourself a copy of the standard definition DVD as the remastered copy is first rate and you can enjoy this until you are able to experience the High Definition copy!
Thanks Warner Brothers for redressing the balance and making this magical movie available again and giving every DVD collector the opportunity to add a unique cinematic experience to their library.
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Star-studded, epic adaptation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel based in Rome during the time of Nero. Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor), a commander in the army, returns to the city and falls in love with a Christian girl called Lygia (Deborah Kerr). However, as he is a pagan, she rejects his suit and refuses to have anything to do with him. Meanwhile, Nero (Peter Ustinov) burns down the city, blames it on the Christians, and prepares to feed them to the lions.
Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play. Before 300... Before Gladiator... Before Ben-Hur... There Was Quo Vadis. Rome burns. Nero fiddles. Christianity rises. And moviegoers turned out in throngs for this years-in-the-making film colossus boasting eight Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and featuring 110 speaking parts, 30,000 participants and a filmed-on-location panoply of marching legions, magisterial pageantry and massive spectacle that includes the martyrdom of Christians thrown to the lions before cheering Coliseum throngs. Robert Taylor plays the Legion commander whose love for a Christian slave girl (Deborah Kerr) crosses the divide between Empire and a sect with a higher loyalty. Presiding over all is Nero (Peter Ustinov). He is Caesar, madman, murderer - an imperial ruler of the spectacular, and spectacularly doomed, glory that was Rome.
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