Lang Jeffries

José Greci

Ignazio Leone

Giuseppe Addobbati

Ennio Antonelli

Giulio Tomei

Domenico Maggio

Piero Pastore

Pasquale Basile

Paola Di Mario

Fedele Gentile

Mario Ghignone

Antonio Devi

Edgardo Siroli

Adriano Micantoni

Angela Angelucci

Mila Stanić

Howard Ross

Enzo Tarascio

Sergio Grieco

Adventure

Una spada per l'impero

Assia Cinematogrifica

CinemaSerf

Historically, this is all over the place. It's a sort of "Decline and Fall..." (also 1964) meets "Quo Vadis" (1951) with the handsome, but really hammy, Lang Jeffries in the lead role of "Quintus" trying to hold together a really weakly scripted and directed muddle. To be fair, the production looks quite good and there is plenty of swordplay and colourful action, it's just that acting is as stiff as a board. The supposedly megalomanic emperor "Commodus" (Enzo Tarascio" has nothing whatsoever by way of menace and the love interest from the glamorous but totally out of her depth José Greci as the slave girl "Nissia" really don't do anything at all to enliven this join-the-dots sword and sandals effort. I like this genre and they are usually quite watchable, but this is more of a chore than most. Perhaps Lionel would have been a better choice?

Italiano

Sword of the Empire