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Quo Vadis

1951

Mervyn LeRoy

Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn ...

7.3

11,570

Adventure. Drama Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything to do with a warrior. Though she grew up Roman, the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia resents this, but somehow falls in love with Marcus anyway. Meanwhile ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"Quo Vadis is a super-spectacle in all its meaning."	POS
United States	Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"Here is a staggering combination of cinema brilliance and sheer banality, of visual excitement and verbal boredom (...) It was made, we suspect, for those who like grandeur and noise -- and no punctuation. It will probably be a vast success."	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Enough large-scale spectacle scenes to outweigh the inevitable religiose sludge that creeps in between them (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"They won't make them like this any more."	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Turner Radio Times	"Long and bloated, this shows both the best and worst of depicting religious fervour in the Hollywood epic style (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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