Gli ultimi Giorni di Pompei / Sins of Pompeii (1950)
Sins of Pompeii / Gli ultimi Giorni di Pompei (1950)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 5300 kbps | 4.4Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French (both custom)
01:50:00 | France, Italy | Drama, History
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 5300 kbps | 4.4Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 384 Kbps | Subtitles: English, French (both custom)
01:50:00 | France, Italy | Drama, History
In the town of Pompeii, 79AD, a few weeks before the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, a Roman lady Hélène meets and falls in love with a young Greek man Lysias. He is betrothed to another woman who, to win him back, acquires a potion to make him love only her. The potion was prepared by the Egyptian priest, Arbax, who has a grudge against Lysias, and is not what it seems, it is intended to drive whoever takes it insane. Hélène's new slave is also in love with Lysias. She steals the potion and gives it to Lysias, who hurries away in a mad rage. When the slave girl confronts Arbax, she is killed by the evil priest, and Lysias is charged with her murder.
Directors: Marcel L'Herbier, Paolo Moffa
Cast: Micheline Presle, Georges Marchal, Marcel Herrand, Jaque Catelain, Adriana Benetti, Camillo Pilotto, Antonio Pierfederici, Guglielmo Barnabò, Alain Quercy, Laura Alex, Annibale Betrone, Claudio Ermelli, Mary Genni, Hans Hinrich, Victor Ledda, Marie-France, Teresa Pollio, Jone Romano, Marcella Rovere, Peter Trent
Gli ultimi Giorni di Pompei / Sins of Pompeii (1950)
Gli ultimi Giorni di Pompei / Sins of Pompeii (1950)
This French version is very well acted, particularly by Georges Marchal. The classical Roman sets and costumes are outstanding. The characters are closer to Bulwer-Lytton's originals than the 1936 American version, but the action scenes are very much lacking. Micheline Presle is lovely as the noble Roman lady Helena enmeshed in a sinister and fraudulent Eastern cult which makes her unresponsive to the honest young man Lysias (Georges Marchal) who loves her.
Meanwhile the young servant girl Nydia is so in love with him that she absconds with a dangerous drug supplied to the unscrupulous highborn lady Julia by the slimy Arbaces, high priest of Isis. Nydia substitutes water in the vial and later administers the potion to Lysias in the belief that it will make him enamored of her. Unfortunately, it puts him into a psychotic stupor during which he wanders onto the scene of a murder and gets blamed and imprisoned for trial.
The final cataclysmic scenes are nowhere near as magnificent as in the earlier 1936 American film. If the two films were combined (the characters from the French version and the action scenes from the U.S. version) the result would be a film far better than either.
~ ccmiller1492
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Gli ultimi Giorni di Pompei / Sins of Pompeii (1950)
Gli ultimi Giorni di Pompei / Sins of Pompeii (1950)
Extras:
- Filmographies
- Stills
- various trailers
Gli ultimi Giorni di Pompei / Sins of Pompeii (1950)
