Set against the back drop of Rome in crisis General Marcus Vinicius returns to the city from the battle fields and falls in love with a Christian woman Lygia. Caught in the grip of insanity Nero's atrocities become more extreme and he burns Rome laying the blame on the Christians. Vinicius races to save Lygia from the wrath of Nero as the empire of Rome collapses around them... Franco Rossi's epic mini series features an outstanding performance by Klaus Maria Brandauer as Nero and features Max Von Sydow as the Apostle Peter.
Before 300... Before Gladiator... Before Ben-Hur... There Was Quo Vadis. Rome burns. Nero fiddles. Christianity rises. And moviegoers turned out in throngs for this years-in-the-making film colossus boasting eight Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and featuring 110 speaking parts 30 000 participants and a filmed-on-location panoply of marching legions magisterial pageantry and massive spectacle that includes the martyrdom of Christians thrown to the lions before cheering Coliseum throngs. Robert Taylor plays the Legion commander whose love for a Christian slave girl (Deborah Kerr) crosses the divide between Empire and a sect with a higher loyalty. Presiding over all is Nero (Peter Ustinov). He is Caesar madman murderer - an imperial ruler of the spectacular and spectacularly doomed glory that was Rome.
The Count Of Monte-Cristo: The Complete Series (5 Discs)
DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS On a winter evening, assorted guests are at their supper in a remote Scottish inn. Suddenly, a brilliant light descends; a spaceship has landed on the moors, and the group is trapped within an invisible wall surrounding the house and garden! THE HEADLESS GHOST While holidaying in Britain, exchange students Bill, Ronnie and Ingrid visit the allegedly-haunted Ambrose Castle. Ronnie persuades fellow-American Bill and the Danish Ingrid to hide with him in the castle, in order to spend the night investigating... KONGA The sole survivor of a plane crash in Africa, Dr Decker returns from the jungle with a baby chimpanzee, 'Konga'. During the course of his experiments, Decker discovers a serum that causes Konga to grow to the size of a gorilla and to obey his will! TIMESLIP A near-lifeless body is recovered from the Thames, shot in the back. Science reporter Delaney identifies the victim as Stephen Rayner a nuclear physicist who works at a nearby research institute but when he visits the institute he's shocked to find Rayner alive and well!
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