The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
- Original title
- Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei
- Directed by
- Mario Bonnard, Sergio Leone
- Genre
- sword-and-sandal film, historical film
- Country
- Germany, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 52 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A heroic gladiator returns to Pompeii and gets caught up in a rivalry with a corrupt official. When Mount Vesuvius erupts, everyone must fight to survive the disaster.
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What happens
The Last Days of Pompeii (Italian: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) is a 1959 Eastmancolor historical disaster action film starring Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, and Fernando Rey and directed by Mario Bonnard and Sergio Leone. Bonnard, the original director, fell ill on the first day of shooting, so Leone and the scriptwriters finished the film. The film is characterized by its CinemaScope framing and lavish look, and is one of many films produced during the 1950s and 1960s as part of the peplum sword and sandal cycle, originally launched by Pietro Francisci's film Le fatiche di Ercole (1958), released as Hercules in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Siege of Syracuse (1960)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.