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.
Genre: History
Stars: Victor Varconi, Rina De Liguoro, María Corda, Bernhard Goetzke, Emilio Ghione, Lia Maris
Crew: Carmine Gallone (Director), Amleto Palermi (Director), Alfredo Panzini (Writer)
Country: Italy
Language: No Language
Studio: Società Italiana Grandi Films
Runtime: 196 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 09, 1926
IMDb: 5.8
Keywords:volcano
