Movie Description:
Rome burns. Nero fiddles. Christianity rises. And moviegoers turned out in throngs for this years in-the-making film colossus boasting eight Oscarnominations and featuring 110 speaking pars, 30,000 participants and a filmed-on-location panoply of marching legions, magisterial pageantry andmassive spectacle that includesthe martyrdom of Christiansthrown to the lions before cheering Coliseum throngs. Robert Taylor plays theLegion commander whose love fora Christian slave girl crosses the divide between Empire and a sect with a higher loyalty. Presiding overall is Nero. He is Caesar, madman, murderer-an imperial ruler of the spectacular, and spectacularly doomed,glory that was Rome.
