Quo Vadis (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 17, 2009
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Taylor, Leo Genn, Deborah Kerr & Peter Ustinov | |
Performer: | Finlay Currie, Abraham Sofaer, Marina Berti & Patricia Laffan | |
Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy | |
Edited by | Ralph E. Winters | |
Screenwriting by | John Lee Mahin | |
Composition by | Miklos Rozsa | |
Cinematography by | Robert Surtees | |
Produced by | Sam Zimbalist |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
It was made, we suspect, for those who like grandeur and noise -- and no punctuation. It will probably be a vast success.
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New York Times
Rating: 6/10 --
It's heavy-handed, to be sure, but it's fun to watch, thanks to its pageantry and color.
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Movie Metropolis
For sheer size, opulence and technical razzle-dazzle, Quo Vadis is the year's most impressive cinematic sight-seeing spree.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The epic Quo Vadis offers a spectacular cast to match its overwhelming production.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
Enough large-scale spectacle scenes to outweigh the inevitable religiose sludge that creeps in between them.
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Empire Magazine
It does last virtually three hours, and along the way does have stretches of tedium, but LeRoy invests most of it with pace, true spectacle, and not a little imagination.
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Time Out
Rating: B- --
By today's standards, Mervyn LeRoy's film is a kitschy spectacle, but in 1951, it was immensely popular and MGM spent its biggest budget to date for a star-driven production that shot for a whole year at Rome's Cinnecitta Studios.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Product Description:
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.