Quo Vadis is a 1951 epic film made by MGM in Technicolor. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S. N. Behrman and Sonya Levien, adapted from Henryk Sienkiewicz's classic 1896 novel Quo Vadis. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa and the cinematography by Robert Surtees and William V. Skall. The title refers to an incident in the Acts of Peter; see Quo Vadis?. The film stars Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, with Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer and Abraham Sofaer. Sophia Loren was cast in... the movie as an extra, and Sergio Leone worked on it as a assistant director of the Italian company. The action takes place in ancient Rome from AD 64–68, a period after Emperor Claudius' illustrious and powerful reign, during which the new corrupt and destructive Emperor Nero ascends to power and eventually threatens to destroy Rome's previous peaceful order.The main subject is the conflict between Christianity and the corruption of the Roman Empire, especially in the last period of the Julio-Claudian line.
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| Release date: | February 23, 1951 |
| Directed by: | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Runtime: | 171 Minutes |
| Producer: | Sam Zimbalist |
| Editor: | Ralph E. Winters |
| Music by: | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography: | Robert Surtees |
| Screenplay by: | Henryk Sienkiewicz, John Lee Mahin, S. N. Behrman, Sonya Levien |
| Estimated budget: | $7,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Quo Vadis |