Overview
Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption. Adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s love story, the film was innovative in its special effects and an early major box-office hit. A beautiful tinted restoration print was prepared using photochemical processes by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale in the mid-1990s and the premiere screening of the restoration print was held in the amphitheatre in Pompeii, followed by a screening at the major restoration festival ‘Il Cinema Ritrovato’ in Bologna in 1998.
Production
Società Italiana Grandi Films
Cast & Characters
Victor Varconi
Glauco
Rina De Liguoro
Ione
María Corda
Nydia
Bernhard Goetzke
Arbace
Emilio Ghione
Caleno
Lia Maris
Julia
Gildo Bocci
Diomede
Directors & Crew
Carmine Gallone
Director
Amleto Palermi
Director
Alfredo Panzini
Writer
Screenshots & Stills
