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Director Pietro Francisci’s 1960 Italian historical drama film Siege of Syracuse [L’Assedio di Siracusa] stars Rossano Brazzi, Tina Louise, Sylva Koscina, Enrico Maria Salerno, and Gino Cervi. It focuses on the Roman Siege of Syracuse […]
The George Bernard Shaw play roars on to the screen in director Chester Erskine’s 1952 drama Androcles and the Lion, with its ancient Rome story of Androcles (Alan Young), the nice Christian tailor who removes a […]
Director Giorgio Ferroni [Richard McNamara as English language director]’s 1964 The Colossus of Rome [Il Colosso di Roma] [Hero of Rome] [Arm of Fire] stars Gordon Scott as Mucius, Gabriella Pallotta as Clelia, Massimo Serato […]
Rhonda Fleming stars as ancient Roman patrician’s daughter Fabiola, who falls for a handsome young Christian slave called Vibio (Lang Jeffries). Nevertheless, the fiery Fabiola has Vibio flogged for disobeying an order. Fleming and her […]
Director Guido Malatesta’s 1964 period action adventure drama Revolt of the Barbarians [La Rivolta dei Barbari] is a very moderate Italian sword and sandal epic, in which a Roman consul goes to Gaul to investigate […]
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s distinguished 1977 Biblical epic film Jesus of Nazareth finds a perfect star actor in Robert Powell, who is excellent as Jesus of Nazareth, in this deservedly much acclaimed and widely shown, all-star […]
Director Norman Jewison’s greatly maligned 1973 movie of the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical – or rock opera as there are no spoken lines and everything is sung – is valuable as an impressive attempt […]