The Fall of the Roman Empire [Import]
The Most Magnificent Re-Creation... Of An Ancient Empire... Launches A New Epoch In Motion Pictures...
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 3 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: January 20, 2004
- Originally Released: 1964
- Label: Imports
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Stephen Boyd, Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren & Omar Sharif | |
| Performer: | Anthony Quayle, Eric Porter, Mel Ferrer & John Ireland | |
| Directed by | Anthony Mann | |
| Edited by | Robert Lawrence | |
| Screenwriting by | Ben Barzman & Basilio Franchina | |
| Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
| Produced by | Samuel Bronston | |
| Director of Photography: | Robert Krasker |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Spectacular crowd scenes, costumes and snow-filled landscapes mix with intelligent, powerful pro-peace and Civil Rights commentary.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: B --
An above average epic.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
While The Fall of the Roman Empire is even more technically assured than El Cid, it's less interesting narrative-wise.
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Combustible Celluloid
Commodus, played here by the flamboyant Christopher Plummer, forsakes the Pax Romana and turns Rome into an empire of camp.
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New Yorker
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Put bluntly, the difference between El Cid and Fall is the difference between faith in a concept of heroism that can transcend even death.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
From back in the day when epic meant upwards of 10,000 extras, gargantuan sets, and 122-piece orchestras...in other words, CGI is for wimps.
Groucho Reviews
... surely the most magnificent period piece of its era.
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Turner Classic Movies Online
Product Description:
The success of Anthony Mann's wide-screen epic El Cid (1961) led to this even grander undertaking, one of Hollywood's periodic infatuations with the decadence of Imperial Rome. After murdering his father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius Commodus drifts into a life of wanton depravity as the Gothic hordes gather at the Empire's borders. THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE is a Hollywood spectacular in the grand tradition, but Mann manages to elicit some terrific performances amongst the mob scenes. According to the trailer, the film contains "Not just 3 or 4, but ALL of the known emotions!"
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