TY - BOOK AU - Mervyn LeRoy AU - Anthony Mann AU - Mervyn LeRoy AU - Anthony Mann AU - Henryk Sienkiewicz AU - John Lee Mahin AU - S.N. Behrman AU - Sonya Levien AU - Hugh Gray AU - Robert Taylor AU - Deborah Kerr AU - Leo Genn TI - Quo Vadis AV - PN1997 .Q608 1951 PY - 1951/// CY - United States of America PB - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) N1 - Based on the 1896 novel "Quo Vadis" by Henryk Sienkiewicz; Special features: - Commentary by Critic/Film Historian F.X. Feeney - Featurette "In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic" N2 - From case cover: Rome burns. Nero fiddles. Christianity rises. And moviegoers turned out in throngs for this years-in-the-making film colossus boasting eight Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) Robert Taylor plays the Legion commander whose love for a Christian slave girl (Deborah Kerr) crosses the divide between Empire and a sect with a higher loyalty. Presiding over all is Nero (Peter Ustinov). He is Caesar, madman, murderer – an imperial ruler of the spectacular, and spectacularly doomed, glory that was Rome ER -