The Last Days of Pompeii (film, 1950)

Synopsis

In Pompeii , in 79, on the eve of the eruption of Vesuvius , the idyll of Helen, the patrician , and Lysias, the Greek, is thwarted by the jealousy of an Egyptian priest, Arbax.

Technical sheet

• Original title: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei ¹
• French title: The Last Days of Pompeii
• Director: Marcel L’Herbier
• Assistants to the production: Claude Heymann , Robert-Paul Dagan , Lucio Fulci
• Scenario: Pierre Brive , Marcel L’Herbier , Diego Fabbri , Jean Laviron , Paolo Moffa , Antonio Pietrangeli , based on the novel The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Dialogues: Alexandre Arnoux (dialogues in french)
• Sets: Franco Lolli and Aldo Tommasini
• Costumes: Veniero Colasanti
• Photography: Aldo Graziati and Roger Hubert
• Her: Ovidio Del Grande
• Editing: Renzo Lucidi and Gisa Radicchi Levi
• Music: Roman Vlad
• Production: Salvo D’Angelo
• Production Companies: Franco-London-Films (France), Universalia (Italy)
• Distribution companies: Pathé Distribution (France), Franco-London-Films (France), Gaumont ² (France), Warner Bros. (Italy), Teledis (international sale)
• Country of origin: France , Italy
• Original languages: French , Italian
• Format: black and white ¹ – 35 mm – 1.37: 1 – mono sound
• Genre : peplum
• Duration: 107 minutes
• Release dates:
  •  France : January 18 , 1950³
  •  Italy : March 2 , 1950
• (en) CNC classification : all public (operating visa n ^o 8107 issued November 18 , 1949³ )

Distribution

• Micheline Presle : Helen
• Georges Marchal : Lysias
• Marcel Herrand : Arbax
• Jaque Catelain : Claudius
• Adriana Benetti : Nidia
• Laure Alex : Julie
• Alain Quercy : Lepidus
• Peter Trent: Sallust
• Antonio Pierfederici : Olynthe
• Guglielmo Barnabò : Panza
• Camillo Pilotto : Diomede
• Marcella Rovena (uncredited): the witch

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