The Last Days of Pompeii (1959 film)
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| Based on | The Last Days of Pompeii 1834 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| Produced by | Paolo Moffa |
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| Cinematography | Antonio L. Ballesteros |
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| Music by | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 100 minutes (Italy) |
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| Language | Italian |
The Last Days of Pompeii (Italian: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) is a 1959 Eastmancolor historical disaster action film starring Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, and Fernando Rey and directed by Mario Bonnard and Sergio Leone. Bonnard, the original director, fell ill on the first day of shooting, so Leone and the scriptwriters finished the film.
The film is characterized by its CinemaScope framing and lavish look, and is one of many films produced during the 1950s and 1960s as part of the peplum sword and sandal cycle, originally launched by Pietro Francisci's film Le fatiche di Ercole (1958), released as Hercules in the United States.