SIGN OF THE CROSS - BLU

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• Release Year: 1932
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: From Cecil B. DeMille, the legendary director of Cleopatra, Reap the Wild Wind, Samson and Delilah and the Ten Commandments, comes this classic and turbulent biblical tale starring screen greats Fredric March (The Eagle and the Hawk), Claudette Colbert (Bluebeard’s Eight Wife) and Charles Laughton (Witness for the Prosecution). Ancient Rome comes to life on a grand scale in the epic spectacular The Sign of the Cross. In the year 64 A.D., the corrupt and maniacal Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar (Laughton) torches the city so he can blame the ensuing destruction on the unsuspecting Christians. Meanwhile, Roman Prefect Marcus Superbus (March) falls for an innocent and beautiful Christian maiden, Mercia (Elissa Landi, The Count of Monte Cristo). When the seductive and wicked Empress Poppaea (Colbert) learns that she has a romantic rival for Marcus’s attentions, she conspires with Nero to send all Christians to a chilling death. Filled with some of the most outrageous and breathtaking scenes ever filmed, including the infamous “milk bath,” this pre-Code classic is a dynamic testament to DeMille’s visionary style. The great Karl Struss (Sunrise) received a 1934 Oscar nomination for his stunning cinematography.
• Cast: George Bruggeman, Oliver Thorndike, Arthur Hohl, Florence Turner, Dorothy Granger, Ian Keith, Charles Laughton, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Kent Taylor, Lionel Belmore, Horace B. Carpenter, Charles Middleton, Ruth Clifford, Lane Chandler, Dave O'Brien, John James, Edward LeSaint, Wilfred Lucas, Tom Ricketts, Angelo Rossitto, Arthur Shields, Tom Tully, Fredric March, William Forrest, Jerome Storm, Ynez Seabury, Harold Healy, Richard Alexander, True Boardman, Nat Pendleton, Sally Rand, Ethel Wales, John Carradine, Harry Beresford, Carol Holloway, Otto Lederer, Lillian Leighton, William V. Mong, Vivian Tobin, James Millican, Gertrude Norman, Wedgwood Nowell, Hal Price, Clarence Burton, Wynne Gibson, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Stanley Ridges, Tommy Conlon, Joyzelle Joyner, William H. O'Brien, Joe Bonomo, Marjorie Bonner, Henry Brandon, Robert Seiter, Mischa Auer, Joel Allen, Cecil B. DeMille, Sidney Buchman, Waldemar Young, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Dudley Nichols, Wilson Barrett
• Director: Cecil B. DeMille
• Runtime: 2:06
• Company: Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Kino Lorber Studio Classics
• Media Format: Movie