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...Poppaea (Nero's favorite wife) seduces Marcus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time & the Tiber | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Nero sings while Rome burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time & the Tiber | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Nero strangles Poppaea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time & the Tiber | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...Desperate, forsaken and alone, Nero destroys himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of Time & the Tiber | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Filmed among the neoclassic marble buildings built by Mussolini for a world's fair that never came off, Nerone centers on two sightseeing U.S. sailors who are knocked unconscious by thugs, carried back to a dream world of Nero's Rome. For the rest of the picture they caper happily through bosomy bedroom scenes, run afoul of a fleshy Nero, are finally thrown into the arena where they organize the gladiators for a rousing game of American-style football. Sample scene: Nero's seductive wife Poppaea (played by Italy's top pin-up girl Silvana Pampanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slapstick on the Tiber | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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