A luxurious 171-minute film, the background of the era is the ancient Roman Empire. Peter Ustinov plays the jealous King Nile. He fell in love with Deborah Kerr, who believes in Jesus Christ because of his jealous general Robert Taylor, and sent them to feed lions as punishment. This action caused great disgust among the people of Rome, and they rose up against the tyrant, and finally the entire city of Rome fell into a sea of flames. The film directed by Murfyun Leroy puts all his energy on the grand scenes and majestic set display. The content of the script is relatively ordinary and boring, and some fragments appear cold. However, King Nile's performance was still quite outstanding.
The scene is spectacular, the costumes are gorgeous, but the pace is slow. The court group sex and the scenes where the Christians were used to feed the beasts in the arena were handled quite implicitly, so that people would not have nightmares after watching them. There are two other Italian versions of the subject. The earliest 1912 version was the first commercially successful epic film in film history, but the 1985 version was not the case.
