The Last Days of Pompeii (1908)

Name: The Last Days of Pompeii
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1908-01-02

19m

Running Time

Plot.

Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer Jone. Glaucus purchases Nydia, the blind and long-suffering slave. Nydia falls in love with Glaucus and asks Arbaces for his help. He gives her a potion to make Glaucus fall in love with her-- In fact, a poison which will cause violent insanity.

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Cast & Crew.

Luigi Maggi

Arbace / Director

Umberto Mozzato

Glauco

Lydia De Roberti

Nidia

Ernesto Vaser

Il padrone di Nidia

Mirra Principi

Roberto Omegna

Writer / Director of Photography

Cesare Gani-Carini

Actor

Arturo Ambrosio

Director / Producer

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Novel

Giovanni Vitrotti

Director of Photography

Media.

Details.

Release Date
January 2, 1908

Original Name
Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

Status
Released

Running Time
19m

Genres
Drama History

Last updated: 2024-09-28

This Movie Is About.

pompeii

vesuvius

ancient rome

1st century

Wiki.

The Last Days of Pompeii (Italian:Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii) is a 1908 Italian silent historical film directed by Arturo Ambrosio and Luigi Maggi and starring Lydia De Roberti and Umberto Mozzato. It was loosely based on the novel of the same title by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The film was a success on its release, and its popularity is credited with starting a fashion for epic historical films.The film was made by the Turin-based Ambrosio Film.