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

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.

epicdramaticvisually lushaction-packedhistoricalsweepingtenseexotic

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)

Trailer

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