The Last Days of Pompeii (1959 film)

• Steve Reeves: Glaucus
• Christine Kaufmann: Ione
• Fernando Rey: Arbace
• Barbara Carroll: Nydia
• Anne -Marie Baumann: Julia
• Mimmo Palmara: Gallinus
• Guillermo Marín Ascanius
• Carlo Tamberlani: Leader of the Christians
• Mino Doro: consul
• Mario Berriatúa: Praetorian guard

The Last Days of Pompeii is a monumental film by Mario Bonnard 's 1959 feature film, based on the novel The Last Days of Pompeii (Original title: The Last Days of Pompeii ). Edward Bulwer -Lytton in the year 1834.

Action

In the Roman city of Pompeii, a Christian minority falls a plot of Isis - priest Arbace victim. The Christians are accused of crimes they did not commit. To the amusement of the decadent population they are to participate in gladiatorial combat.

The family of the Centurions Glaucus fell the alleged crimes of the Christians to the victim. However, he sees through the plot and tried the Christian prisoners, including the beautiful Elena, to save them from death in the arena before tragedy strikes: Mount Vesuvius erupts, and suddenly all fighting for survival.

Background

As with Ben Hur took Sergio Leone parts of the work as a director without being officially named as a co- director.

Reviews

• Monumental film with great animated sequences ( Filmdb.de )

• The lexicon of the International praised the film: " Elaborate remake of the novel by Bulwer- Lytton, the quite serious attempts beyond all show effects and despite some apparent over (for the time of origin ) atrocities that time the persecution of Christians to reconstruct. "