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VHS : Quo VadisIn association with Amazon.com EAN: 9780792802631 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 0792802632 Label: MGM/UA Home Video Manufacturer: MGM/UA Home Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: MGM/UA Home Video Running Time: 171 minutes Studio: MGM/UA Home Video Sales Rank: 31114 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: "Welcome to Nero's House of Women" greets a concubine to a slave girl, Lygia (Deborah Kerr). Later this self-same greeter reveals that she, too, like Lygia, is really a fellow Christian neophyte. And it's that mixture of tawdry Hollywood sex and a strong Christian message that makes this film an enjoyable "gentiles and gladiators" flick. Marcus Vinicius returns home after conquering the Britons to find that Rome is infected with a crazy new sect called Christians and that his beloved emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov, roly-poly and wicked) has become increasingly wacky. Marcus tries his centurion wiles on Lygia, and she's smitten, but she's also a Christian convert and begs Marcus not to force her to choose between him and her god. The Christians have a tough go of it, with martyrdom in the Coliseum as punishment for belonging to the new religion in town. Though three hours long, director Mervyn LeRoy's film always has something going on. It could help you enjoyably kill any rainy Sunday afternoon. --Keith Simanton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Finally - An Official 2 Disc Release Of A Classic Epic -"Nothing do I see that is not perfection". At last one of the great classic Hollywood blockbuster epics of the early fifties has finally found its rightful DVD home with this exceptional release from Warner Home Video! Produced by MGM in 1951 "Quo Vadis" was Hollywood's first wallop in the fight against the onslaught of television. Available at first and for many years only on VHS tape it then began to appear on a plethora of foreign DVDs and with varying quality - it has ... Read More Rating:  - Great Film But the Dvd is a Rip-OffQuo Vadis is one of those large scale biblical epics that has withstood the test of time. and as they did with special edition dvds of Ryan's Daughter, Dr. Zhivago, Mutiny on the Bounty, Grand Prix, Ben-Hur and How The West Was Won Warner Brothers Home Video has done a splendid job of restoring and remastering the film. but why the break??? a 2hr.52min.film can easily fit on one side of one disc. Rating: - NOT A WIDESCREEN FILMIt bares repeating that this film was made before the invention of Cinemascope or any widescreen process. So, I don't want to hear anyone complaining about this being a "Full Screen Version". That is the only way it can be viewed. Also, even though Miklos Rozza's score is not as dramatic as Ben Hur, or any others he composed during this time period, there is obvious similarities to Ben Hur. Close to the end of the film, the march he used at the end of the Chariot Race of Ben Hur is exactly ... Read More Rating:  - Big disappointmentI have been waiting for "Quo Vadis " on DVD for years to complete the " Ben Hur" , " King of Kings " trilogy. Considereing the stunning presentation of "King of Kings " I was sure "Quo Vadis was going to be on an equal par especially since it was remastered in an ultraresolution. What a disappointment. Image appeared flat and the technicolor was pale and lackluster. A far cry from the "King of Kings" presentation. I hope the blu ray disc due out for Easter is an improvement. Rating: - A Superb Religious Epic Finally Restored. Following a long-overdue restoration process, this 2-Disc special edition of MGM's epic Quo Vadis is finally available. Quo Vadis easily ranks among Ben-Hur, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and The Ten Commandments as one of the greatest religious epics ever. Adapted from Henryk Sienkiewicz's 1895 historical novel, Quo Vadis, the 1951 film stars Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, with Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer and Abraham Sofaer. The film's title refers to a meeting between St Peter ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: 
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