Victor Mature Susan Hayward Michael Rennie William Marshall Debra Paget Anne Bancroft Jay Robinson Ernest Borgnine Barry Jones Richard Egan
Cinematography
Milton R. Krasner
Edited by
Robert Fritch Dorothy Spencer
Music by
Franz Waxman
Production company
20th Century-Fox
Distributed by
20th Century-Fox
Release date
June 16, 1954 (1954-06-16) (Los Angeles)[1]
Running time
101 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1.99 million[2]
Box office
$26,000,000[3]
Demetrius and the Gladiators is a 1954 American biblical drama film and a sequel to The Robe. The picture was made by 20th Century-Fox, directed by Delmer Daves and produced by Frank Ross. The screenplay was written by Philip Dunne based on characters created by Lloyd C. Douglas in The Robe.
The movie presents Victor Mature as Demetrius, a Christian slave made to fight in the Roman arena as a gladiator, and Susan Hayward as Messalina, a reprobate who is the wife of Claudius, the uncle of the depraved emperor Caligula. The cast also features Ernest Borgnine, William Marshall, Michael Rennie, Jay Robinson as Caligula, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft in one of her earlier roles, and Julie Newmar as a briefly seen dancing entertainer. The film is in Technicolor and CinemaScope.
^"Demetrius and the Gladiators – History". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
^Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p249
^Box Office Information for Demetrius and the Gladiators. The Numbers. Retrieved April 15, 2013
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