Pascale Petit

Gordon Scott

George Ardisson

Rik Battaglia

Corrado Pani

Franco Volpi

Ennio Balbo

Nerio Bernardi

Aurora de Alba

Nando Angelini

Barbara Loy

Nino Marchetti

Barbara Nardi

Piero Palermini

Akim Tamiroff

Giovanni Cianfriglia

Benito Stefanelli

Fulvio Gicca Palli

Michel Michelet

Piero Pierotti

Angelo Lotti

Arrigo Montanari

Giorgio Venturini

Fausto Rossi

Giovanni Palombi

Bixie Banfi

Pier Ludovico Pavoni

Alberto Chimenz

Cecilia Bigazzi

Francesco De Masi

Luciano Cavalieri

Viktor Tourjansky

Nadia Vitali

Raul Ranieri

Paolo Janni

Mario Del Pezzo

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Una regina per Cesare

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I wonder if Elizabeth Taylor watched this before she took on the role played here by Pascale Petit one year later? I can't think she would have gained much from the rather wooden effort presented of this most enigmatic of women from history. Sharing the throne with her brother "Ptolemy" (an enthusiastic Corrado Pani) has proved just too awkward for all and so the scheming Theodotus (Ennio Balbo) plots a regime change. This forces our heroine and her protector Apollodorus (Franco Volpi) to take urgent action that sees her end up in the camp of Pompeii (Akim Tamiroff) who has some scheming of his own to do to outwit Caesar (Gordon Scott). Were the acting just a bit more natural and better, this wouldn't be half bad. Effort has been made on the look of the film. The sets and the costumes are effective and the combat scenes are pretty entertaining fayre. It's just that Petit and the even more static "Lucius" (Rik Battaglia) drive the fun and chemistry from the thing quickly and permanently. You don't expect Pulitzer prize writing but again, just a little more application with the typewriter could have made a big difference. Still, I did actually quite enjoy it and I like the genre. If you do, too, then it's certainly worth a gander.

Italiano

A Queen for Caesar