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The Sign of the Cross (1932) is a feature film (sound, B&W, 122m), directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Based on The Sign of the Cross (1895 Barrett), play.
Abstract
Third, and most famous, film version of Barrett's drama presents a combination of spectacle, violence, sex, and the moral victory of religion, which proved to be very popular with moviegoers.
Cast
- Fredric March = Marcus Superbus
- Elissa Landi = Mercia
- Claudette Colbert = Poppea
- Charles Laughton = Nero
Production
Produced in the United States (1932).
Released in USA (30 November 1932 in New York, NY, and 25 December 1932, in Los Angeles, CA); Austria (1933); Germany (17 February 1933); Argentina (24 February 1933); Denmark (13 March 1933); Finland (19 March 1933); Sweden (23 March 1933); Australia (31 August 1933); Spain (December 1933); Portugal (28 December 1933); UK (10 July 1939 re-release); ...
Reissued in 1944 with many cuts of sexy and sadistic scenes, and a nine-minute WW2 prologue added. Released in USA (August 1944 re-release); Sweden (26 December 1945 re-release); France (10 September 1947); Spain (30 August 1948 re-release); Austria (1950 re-release); West Germany (1950); Portugal (5 July 1960 re-release)
Versions in other languages
The Italian versions
The movie was first dubbed in the 1930s by a group of Italian actors, including:
- Franco Schirato as Frederich March (Marco Superbo / Marcus Superbus)
The movie was re-dubbed after the war in the studios of C.D.C. in Rome in 1947. The cast now included:
- Giulio Panicali as Frederich March (Marco Superbo / Marcus Superbus)
- Elisa Cegani as Elissa Landi (Marzia / Mercia)
- Marcella Rovena as Claudette Colbert (Poppea)
- Mario Besesti as Charles Laughton (Nerone / Nero)
- Gaetano Verna as Ian Keith (Tigellino / Tigellinus)
- Aldo Silvani as Arthur Hohl (Tito / Titus)
- Wanda Tettoni as Vivian Tobin (Dacia)
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- 1932
- 1930s
- Film Studies--1930s
- Film Studies--English
- 1932, Top Films
- Antiquity (film subject)
- Bible (film subject)
- Christian Origins (film subject)
- Quo Vadis (film subject)
- Nero (film subject)
- Peter (film subject)
- Fiction--1930s
- Fiction--English
- Cinema--1930s
- Cinema--American
- Feature Films
- English language--1930s
- Christian Origins Studies--1930s
- Christian Origins Studies--Fiction
- Christian Origins Studies--English
- Nero (subject)
- Nero--cinema (subject)
- Poppea--cinema (subject)
- Vinicius--cinema (subject)
- Lygia--cinema (subject)
- Top 1930s
- Fiction--Top 1930s