• Rating:
• Genre: Epic
• Movie Type: Sword-and-Sandal, Costume Adventure
• Themes: Crowned Heads
• Director: Lionello de Felice
• Main Cast: Cornel Wilde, Christine Kaufmann, Belinda Lee, Elisa Cegani
• Release Year: 1962
• Country: IT
• Run Time: 120 minutes

Plot

One of the many Italian sword-and-sandal adventure stories roughly depicting historical events -- sometimes too graphically -- this drama by director Lionello de Felice has its merits. The action moves along at a good clip, as Constantine's (Cornel Wilde) rise to power is depicted, amidst battling armies and political intrigue. All the well-publicized, old Roman entertainments such as feeding Christians to the lions are shown in more detail than might be necessary, leading to one of the main points of featuring Constantine at all -- he was the emperor who gave Christians the freedom to worship as they pleased. His cronies and his enemies, his loves and his successes all have their moment in the sun. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Cornel Wilde - Constantine
• Christine Kaufmann - Livia
• Belinda Lee - Fausta
• Elisa Cegani - Helena

Fausto Tozzi - Hadrian; Tino Carraro - Maximianus; Vittorio Sanipoli - Apuleius; Massimo Serato - Maxientius

Credit

Ennio de Concini - Screenwriter; Massimo Dallamano - Cinematographer; Mario Nascimbene - Composer (Music Score); Franco Rossetti - Screenwriter; Giancarlo Bartolini-Salimbene - Costume Designer; Mario Serandrei - Editor; Gabriele Varriale - Editor; Lionello de Felice - Director; Lionello de Felice - Screenwriter; Diego Fabbri - Screenwriter; Ferdinando Felicioni - Producer; Ernesto Guida - Screenwriter; Franco Lolli - Art Director; Fulvio Palmieri - Screenwriter; Guglielmo Santangelo - Screenwriter

Similar Movies

Cleopatra; Demetrius and the Gladiators; Fabiola; The Fall of the Roman Empire; Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompeii; Quo Vadis?; The Robe; Spartacus; Hannibal; Gladiator