Parola chiave Vesuvius

Sullo sfondo dell'eruzione del Vesuvio del 79 d.C., che distrusse le città di Ercolano e Pompei, si svolge la storia d'amore fra un centurione romano ed una giovane cristiana.

Pompei, 79 d.C., pochi giorni prima dell'eruzione vesuviana. Glauco e Jone sono innamorati l'uno dell'altra. Arbaces, il sommo sacerdote egiziano, è deciso a conquistare Jone. Glauco acquista Nydia, una schiava cieca e sofferente. Nydia si innamora di Glauco e chiede l'aiuto di Arbaces. Questi le dà una pozione per far innamorare Glauco di lei: in realtà, un veleno che causerà una violenta follia. Prodotto dalla Ambrosio Films di Torino.

This seven-hour British-Italian adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 epic, set against the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and previously filmed in 1935, and in 1960 was a vehicle for muscleman Steve Reeves, was trashed by the critics as the campiest of sword and sandal sagas to emerge in years. This despite its reported $19-million price tag, the nobility of its cast that includes Laurence Olivier, Siobhan McKenna and Anthony Quayle, and its rather unspectacular special effects. The central figures are Nicholas Clay as Glaucus, the noble Athenian; Olivia Hussey as the high-born Ione, his love, who is seduced by the Egyptian, Arbaces (Franco Nero), a religious fanatic; Duncan Regehr as Lydon, the champion gladiator; and Linda Purl as the blind slave Nydia, who is torn between Glaucus and Lydon.

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