Julius Caesar Against the Pirates

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates
Julius Caesar Against the Pirates
Directed by	Sergio Grieco
Screenplay by	Gino Mangini; Fabio De Agostini; Maria Grazia Borgiotti; Sergio Grieco;
Story by	Maria Grazia Borgiotti
Produced by	Gastone Gugliemetti
Starring	Gustavo Rojo; Abbe Lane; Gordon Mitchell; Piero Lulli;
Cinematography	Vincenzo Seratrice
Edited by	Enzo Alfonzi
Music by	Carlo Innocenzi
Production; company	C.A.P.R.I.
Release date	23 April 1962 (Italy);
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Italy

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates (Italian: Giulio Cesare contro i pirati) is a 1962 Italian adventure film written and directed by Sergio Grieco and starring Gustavo Rojo, Abbe Lane and Gordon Mitchell.^[2]^[3] It is loosely based on actual events from the early life of Julius Caesar.

Plot

It's 75 BC and Rome is in turmoil. Killers are on the loose. The dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix is having all the Roman Senators who refuse to support him murdered. Julius Caesar must flee due to his wife's Cornelia family's ties to Sulla's enemies. Caesar decides to flee Rome to the court of his friend, King Nicomedes of Bithynia. While traveling to Mileto, Caesar is captured by pirates and taken to their island fortress on the island of Formacusa. The pirates led by Hamar are engaged in hostilities with Bithynia, and Caesar swears that once he has paid his ransom of fifty talents of gold, he will return and destroy the pirates.

Cast

Gustavo Rojo as Julius Caesar
Abbe Lane as Plauzia
Gordon Mitchell as Hamar
Erno Crisa as Sulla
Rossana Fattori as Eber
Piero Lulli as Edom
Franca Parisi as Cornelia
Silvana Jachino as Quintilia
Massimo Carocci as Publius
Ignazio Leone as Frontone
Fedele Gentile as Valerio Torquato, Governor of Mileto
Pasquale Basile as Tullius
Antonio Basile as Glaucus
Aldo Cecconi as Akim
Mario Petri as Nicomedes
Antonio Gradoli as Lucius
Nando Angelini as Roman Official

Production

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates was shot at INCOM studios in Rome with sea battle scenes filmed in Yugoslavia.^[1]

Release

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates was released in Italy on April 23, 1962.^[1]

References

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 30.
^ Della Casa, Steve; Giusti, Marco. Il grande libro di Ercole. pp. 164–165. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Edizioni Sabinae, 2013. ISBN 978-88-98623-051.
^ Casadio, Gianfranco. I mitici eroi. p. 258. Longo Editore, 2007. ISBN 978-88-8063-529-1.

Sources

Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476662916.

External links

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates at IMDb

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[FOOTNOTEKinnardCrnkovich201730-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 30.

[2] Della Casa, Steve; Giusti, Marco. Il grande libro di Ercole. pp. 164–165. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Edizioni Sabinae, 2013. ISBN 978-88-98623-051.

[Mereghetti-3] Casadio, Gianfranco. I mitici eroi. p. 258. Longo Editore, 2007. ISBN 978-88-8063-529-1.

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