Hollywood And The Gladiators
October, 1954
Hollywood and the GladiatorsIf no one objects too strongly, we would like to nominate Romulus and Remus as the patron saints of the film industry. The reason? Romulus and Remus were the founders of Rome, and without Rome, where would the film industry be? We submit the following evidence:Back in the diaper-days of movies (1902), Pathe, a toddling French studio, made a flickery attempt to film Quo Vadis, the Henryk Sienkiewicz novelization of one fraction of the decline and fall of the Roman empi...