The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) | |
| Director(s) | Anthony Mann |
| Producer(s) | Samuel Bronston, Michal Waszynski (associate) |
| Top Genres | Drama, Epic, Historical, War |
| Top Topics | Period Piece |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) was a Drama - Historical Film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Michal Waszynski and Samuel Bronston.
Academy Awards 1964 --- Ceremony Number 37 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Music - Scoring | Dimitri Tiomkin | Nominated |
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Timonides:
Men of Rome, men of Rome! Do not touch these people, they have become your brothers. They're Roman now. The whole Northern people will answer with fire and blood, their hatred will live for centuries. Men of Roman blood will pay for this. You will make nations to kill us all. Let us live in peace!Peace!
[Timonides is killed with a javelin in the chest]
Commodus: Livius, if you listen very carefully, you can hear the gods laughing!
Timonides: As you see there is more than enough for ourselves. We were right Livius. There is no limit with what can be done with a human spirit, for good or evil.
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[Timonides is killed with a javelin in the chest]
Commodus: Livius, if you listen very carefully, you can hear the gods laughing!
Timonides: As you see there is more than enough for ourselves. We were right Livius. There is no limit with what can be done with a human spirit, for good or evil.
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_"Price is Right, The" (1956)_ gave the role of an extra in this film away as a bonus prize. The winner was a man named Robert Reynolds, and he can be seen in the background of one of the arena scenes.
The film was originally intended to be made after El Cid and to reunite Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. The set for the Forum Romanum was actually being built when Heston rejected the script but expressed an interest in '55 Days at Peking' instead. Samuel Bronston immediately ordered that the work on the Forum be stopped and the landscaping and foundation work be adapted for the Peking set. After filming, the Peking set was torn down and replaced by the Forum. If you look carefully, both sets share a very similar topography.
Richard Harris was originally cast as Commodus. He withdrew because of artistic differences with the director. He was replaced by Christopher Plummer.
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The film was originally intended to be made after El Cid and to reunite Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. The set for the Forum Romanum was actually being built when Heston rejected the script but expressed an interest in '55 Days at Peking' instead. Samuel Bronston immediately ordered that the work on the Forum be stopped and the landscaping and foundation work be adapted for the Peking set. After filming, the Peking set was torn down and replaced by the Forum. If you look carefully, both sets share a very similar topography.
Richard Harris was originally cast as Commodus. He withdrew because of artistic differences with the director. He was replaced by Christopher Plummer.
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