NERO'S EYE VIEW from palace shows celebration going on in huge outdoor set constructed at Cinecitta Studios outside Rome. In circular foreground area a troupe of vestal virgins are performing their rites while a triumphal procession sweeps across scene to honor film's hero, whose admirers include several thousand friends, Romans and countrymen. At upper right are buildings connected with film studio, and at left is M-G-M's reconstruction of ancient Circus Maximus.
MOST COLOSSAL EPIC EVER MADE
M-G-M Boss Louis B. Mayer has always had a nostalgic affection for an epic of Imperial Rome he made a generation ago, Ben Hur, which helped popularize the word colossal. Now M-G-M has come up with a worthy successor: Quo Vadis, whose story of the love between a highborn Christian damsel and a handsome Roman official in the wicked old days of Nero is almost ready to be seen after 12 years of research and months of shooting. Taken mostly in Rome, Quo Vadis is the most. expensive ($9 million), most densely populated (30,000 extras), most cosmopolitan (two Polish princes, five Hungarian lions, three Ethiopian acrobats), in short, the most genuinely colossal movie you are likely to see for the rest of your lives.
HEROINE DEBORAH KERR
HERO ROBERT TAYLOR rides a triumphal chariot. Ruins along a two-mile stretch of Appian Way were refurbished by M-G-M to look like new for scene.
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