The Last Days of Pompeii

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The Last Days of Pompeii

1913

1h 28m

History

Drama

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Chariots race, people (Ubaldo Stefani, Negri Pouget, Tettoni Fiorio) play, and lions pack the arena until Mount Vesuvius erupts in A.D. 79.

LA Times Staff

Los Angeles Times

A revelation in photo drama from the standpoint of art and beauty, as well as dramatic force.

Jun 4, 2021

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Variety Staff

Variety

In no other film has the immense sweep of the old Athenian playgrounds been so impressively conveyed. You don't see merely a corner of what might be an arena. You see it all.

Jun 4, 2021

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SMH Staff

Sydney Morning Herald

The scenic interest is well sustained, and the amphitheatre assembly, with the subsequent earthquake spectacle, represent a triumph in construction.

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Harry Ennis

New York Clipper

To use the rather trite phrase, "awe inspiring" in relation to this is possibly a poor way of describing the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii, for it reaches the superlative in motion picture production, and has never seen equaled,

Jun 4, 2021

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C.J. Ver Halen

Motion Picture News

We went to criticise, but our pencil lay idle and forgotten in the wonder of the unwinding scenes before us. It is truly a masterly production, done by a big mind on a massive scale. It is a photoplay marvel we wish the whole world could see.

Jun 4, 2021

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Motography Staff

Motography

There are five great leading roles in The Last Days of Pompeii production and all are enacted by accomplished and talented players, but Signora Fernanda Negri-Pouget... stands out vividly from among the thousands appearing in the six reel spectacle.

Jun 4, 2021

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david f

This silent movie based on a turgid historical romance novel from the 1800s suffers from many of the cliches of the silent era-the pure heroes and mustache twirling villains, for example. Interesting to see the early film industry embrace classical themes, though, as they would become such a permanent staple.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Awful characterizations, awful storytelling, a chaste/dull romance between chaste/dull aristocrats, no nudity despite scenes which call for it, a villainous foreign priest (the only religion in this Pompeii is Egyptian!), a kind of Victorian bourgeois Pompeii.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Audience Member

Unfortunately while some visual effects were impressive for a 1913 movie, the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius was only a brief conclusion to some melodramatic love triangles.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Audience Member

not bad for its time

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

I was amazed at the short length of this film at first, but then, when you see it, it is basically a tragedy that had all the superfluous parts stripped and instead redone with only the most strongest theme, that of love and its infinite sadness. The epic is a good way of representing this, and watching it like this was a particular experience for me if you might say so.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

An early experimental film which broadened the mind of many other directors, using large scale. Many famous epic films came soon after this one.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Mario Caserini

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Ubaldo Stefani

Glaucus

Negri Pouget

Nidia

Tettoni Fiorio

Jone

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Synopsis

Chariots race, people (Ubaldo Stefani, Negri Pouget, Tettoni Fiorio) play, and lions pack the arena until Mount Vesuvius erupts in A.D. 79.

Director: Mario Caserini
Genre: History, Drama
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 14, 2017
Runtime: 1h 28m

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