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The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)

The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)

History
Release Date: 1926, March 9
Directors: Carmine Gallone, Amleto Palermi
Countries: Italy
Production: Società Italiana Grandi Films
Cast: Victor Varconi, Gildo Bocci, Rina De Liguoro, Bernhard Goetzke, María Corda, Emilio Ghione, Lia Maris

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.

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