A tale of the fall of Rome at the hand of the half-mad Emperor Nero, who sets fires throughout the city, blaming the Christians and sentencing them to death. The selfish Empress takes revenge when the object of her desire spurns her for the love of a Christian woman.
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Written by
Wilson Barrett (play); Waldemar Young (screenplay); Sidney Buchman (screenplay); Dudley Nichols (1944 prologue) (uncredited); Henryk Sienkiewicz (novel "Quo Vadis") (uncredited source).
Starring
Fredric March (Marcus Superbus); Elissa Landi (Mercia); Claudette Colbert (Empress Poppaea); Charles Laughton (Emperor Nero); Ian Keith (Tigellinus); Arthur Hohl (Titus); Harry Beresford (Favius); Tommy Conlon (Stephan); Ferdinand Gottschalk (Glabrio); Vivian Tobin (Dacia); William V. Mong (Licinius); Joyzelle Joyner (Ancaria (as Joyzelle)); Richard Alexander (Viturius); Nat Pendleton (Strabo); Clarence Burton (Servillius). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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