Though she grew up as the foster daughter of Aulus Plautius, a retired Roman general, Lygia is legally a Lygian hostage of Rome in the old general's care. Returning from wars in Britain and Gaul, he falls in love with Lygia, a devout Christian in spite of this, he continually tries to win her affections. Marcus Vinicius is a Roman military commander and the legate of the XIV Gemina. Skall won the award for Best Cinematography. Peter Ustinov won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and Robert Surtees and William V.
The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and it was such a huge box office success that it was credited with single-handedly rescuing MGM from the brink of bankruptcy. The title refers to an incident in the apocryphal Acts of Peter. Unlike his illustrious and powerful predecessor, Emperor Claudius, Nero proved corrupt and destructive, and his actions eventually threatened to destroy Rome's previously peaceful social order. Its main theme is the Roman Empire’s conflict with Christianity and persecution of Christians in the final years of the Julio-Claudian line. The story, set between 64–68 AD, combines both historical and fictional events and characters, and compresses the key events of that period into the space of only a few weeks. The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on November 2, 1951. The score is by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography by Robert Surtees and William V. Future Italian stars Sophia Loren and Bud Spencer appeared as uncredited extras. The film stars Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, and Peter Ustinov, and features Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Abraham Sofaer, Marina Berti, Buddy Baer, and Felix Aylmer.
It is the fourth screen adaptation of Sienkiewicz's novel. Behrman, Sonya Levien, and John Lee Mahin.
Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and filmed in Technicolor, it was directed by Mervyn LeRoy from a screenplay by S. Quo Vadis ( Latin for "Where are you going?") is a 1951 American epic film set in ancient Rome during the final years of Emperor Nero's reign, based on the 1896 novel of the same title by Polish Nobel Laureate author Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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