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Quo Vadis
starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov
directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792802631
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0792802632
Label: MGM/UA Home Video
Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video
Running Time: 171 minutes
Sales Rank: 17797
Studio: MGM/UA Home Video

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Amazon.com:
'Welcome to Nero's House of Women' greets a concubine to a slave girl, Lygia (Deborah Kerr). Later this self-same greeter reveals that she, too, like Lygia, is really a fellow Christian neophyte. And it's that mixture of tawdry Hollywood sex and a strong Christian message that makes this film an enjoyable 'gentiles and gladiators' flick. Marcus Vinicius returns home after conquering the Britons to find that Rome is infected with a crazy new sect called Christians and that his beloved emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov, roly-poly and wicked) has become increasingly wacky. Marcus tries his centurion wiles on Lygia, and she's smitten, but she's also a Christian convert and begs Marcus not to force her to choose between him and her god. The Christians have a tough go of it, with martyrdom in the Coliseum as punishment for belonging to the new religion in town. Though three hours long, director Mervyn LeRoy's film always has something going on. It could help you enjoyably kill any rainy Sunday afternoon. --Keith Simanton

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- classic collection
Amazon has provided with many classics this is one of them.
Not as the best but still rates high

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- The french version
Well I just received The french version of Quo Vadis.The Discs are the same as the American Version, but the two Folios of Glossy Pictures are Great. You get about 30 Pictures of Lobby pictures, Posters, behind the scenes, The Souvenier Program from the Road Show and the best is a cast posed picture on the Set. Why couldn't the American Version have done that.

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- Quo Vadis
Excellant 1950's epic, loved the sets and actors were great. A classic worth collecting as computer generated movies today just don't match the REAL casts of hundreds in a scene and the lavish costumes and sets used in these grand displays portrayed. Love the movie and hope others will enjoy who have never seen it.

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- Wonderful spectacle, but way too short for what the story tries to tell
A beautiful print of this good film. The film is not quite as good as the original book though. But decent, considering that Mervyn Leroy was behind the wheel of this super-production, so it could hardly fail. The best is the crisp and beautiful cinematography, the real sets, the colors, the whole spectacle of it. The weakest is the shortage of running time: the story has been shortened way to much from the original. There is no time for transitions, no character development. The heroine meets the hero and in no time he's become a Christian and they are married. It makes no sense. For the story to work properly it should have had, at least, one more hour only for character development; and then more for lots of facts that matter and are not even told in the film. For instance: the Greek character who is paid to go and pass as a Christians to later on betray them to the Romans. There's a lot of stuff that goes untold ... Read More

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