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Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy was an Academy Award-winning United States film director, film producer and sometime actor....
 and produced by Sam Zimbalist
Sam Zimbalist

Sam Zimbalist was an United States film producer.He began his career at 16 as a film cutter at Metro Studios. He remained with Metro when the studio merged with the Goldwyn Company in 1924 and became MGM....
, from a screenplay
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 by John Lee Mahin
John Lee Mahin

John Lee Mahin was a prolific screenwriter and Film producer.He worked from the 1930s to the 1970s. He worked on such films as Scarface and The Wizard of Oz , but his name does not appear on the credits to the latter film....
, S. N. Behrman
S. N. Behrman

Samuel N. Behrman was an American playwright and screenwriter, who also worked for the New York Times.In the 1930s and 1940s, he was considered one of Broadway's leading authors of "high comedy", and wrote for such stars as Ina Claire, Katharine Cornell, Jane Cowl, and the acting team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne....
 and Sonya Levien
Sonya Levien

Sonya Levien , was a Russian screenwriter. She wrote for 72 films between 1921 in film and 1962 in film. She won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1955 in film for the film Interrupted Melody....
, adapted from the classic 1895 novel Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis (novel)

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Quo vadis is Latin for "Where are you going?" and alludes to a New Testament verse ....
 by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Poland journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."...
. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa

Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
 and the cinematography by Robert Surtees
Robert Surtees

Robert Surtees may refer to:*Robert Surtees *Robert Surtees , historian and antiquarian*Robert Smith Surtees , English writer...
 and William V. Skall.

The film stars Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (actor)

Robert Taylor was an United States actor....
, Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
, Leo Genn
Leo Genn

Leo John Genn was an English people actor on stage and in films....
, Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE or ;, born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.Ustinov was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre director and opera director, film director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television pres...
, with Finlay Currie
Finlay Currie

Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish people actor on stage, screen and television.Born in Edinburgh, Currie's acting career began on the stage....
, Felix Aylmer
Felix Aylmer

Sir Felix Aylmer, Order of the British Empire , born Felix Edward Aylmer Jones, was a distinguished England stage actor who also appeared in the cinema and on television....
 and Abraham Sofaer
Abraham Sofaer

Abraham Sofaer was a Burma Jewish stage actor who became a familiar supporting player on film and television in his later years. He was born in Rangoon, Burma ....
.

n, meaning "Where are you going?" and refers to the apocryphal encounter between St Peter and Jesus Christ on the Appian Way.






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Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy

Mervyn LeRoy was an Academy Award-winning United States film director, film producer and sometime actor....
 and produced by Sam Zimbalist
Sam Zimbalist

Sam Zimbalist was an United States film producer.He began his career at 16 as a film cutter at Metro Studios. He remained with Metro when the studio merged with the Goldwyn Company in 1924 and became MGM....
, from a screenplay
Screenplay

A screenplay or script is a written work especially for a film or television program. Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing works....
 by John Lee Mahin
John Lee Mahin

John Lee Mahin was a prolific screenwriter and Film producer.He worked from the 1930s to the 1970s. He worked on such films as Scarface and The Wizard of Oz , but his name does not appear on the credits to the latter film....
, S. N. Behrman
S. N. Behrman

Samuel N. Behrman was an American playwright and screenwriter, who also worked for the New York Times.In the 1930s and 1940s, he was considered one of Broadway's leading authors of "high comedy", and wrote for such stars as Ina Claire, Katharine Cornell, Jane Cowl, and the acting team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne....
 and Sonya Levien
Sonya Levien

Sonya Levien , was a Russian screenwriter. She wrote for 72 films between 1921 in film and 1962 in film. She won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1955 in film for the film Interrupted Melody....
, adapted from the classic 1895 novel Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis (novel)

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Quo vadis is Latin for "Where are you going?" and alludes to a New Testament verse ....
 by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Poland journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."...
. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa

Mikl?s R?zsa or Miklos Rozsa was a Hungary-born composer, best known for his film scores, most notably the score to the 1959 epic Ben-Hur ....
 and the cinematography by Robert Surtees
Robert Surtees

Robert Surtees may refer to:*Robert Surtees *Robert Surtees , historian and antiquarian*Robert Smith Surtees , English writer...
 and William V. Skall.

The film stars Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (actor)

Robert Taylor was an United States actor....
, Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
, Leo Genn
Leo Genn

Leo John Genn was an English people actor on stage and in films....
, Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE or ;, born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.Ustinov was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre director and opera director, film director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television pres...
, with Finlay Currie
Finlay Currie

Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish people actor on stage, screen and television.Born in Edinburgh, Currie's acting career began on the stage....
, Felix Aylmer
Felix Aylmer

Sir Felix Aylmer, Order of the British Empire , born Felix Edward Aylmer Jones, was a distinguished England stage actor who also appeared in the cinema and on television....
 and Abraham Sofaer
Abraham Sofaer

Abraham Sofaer was a Burma Jewish stage actor who became a familiar supporting player on film and television in his later years. He was born in Rangoon, Burma ....
.

Background

Latin, meaning "Where are you going?" and refers to the apocryphal encounter between St Peter and Jesus Christ on the Appian Way. According to the Acts of Peter, Peter, fleeing from the persecutions of the Emperor Nero had a vision of Christ whom he asked "Domine, quo vadis?" (Lord, whither goest thou?). Jesus answered him, "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards" (John 13:36). Peter understood this to mean that he would die a similar death as his Lord. Peter ultimately returned to Rome and was crucified at the foot of the Vatican Hill where St Peter's Basilica stands today.

Plot

The action takes place in ancient Rome
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 from 64-68 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Nero. The subject is the conflict between Christianity
Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
 and the corruption of the Roman Empire
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
, especially in the last period of the Julio-Claudian line. The characters and events depicted are a mixture of actual historical figures and situations and fictionalized ones.

The film tells the story of a Roman military commander, Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor
Robert Taylor (actor)

Robert Taylor was an United States actor....
), returning from the wars, who falls in love with a devout Christian, Lygia (Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
). Commander Vinicius becomes intrigued by her and her religion. Their love story is told against the broader historical background of early Christianity and its persecution by Nero (Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE or ;, born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.Ustinov was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre director and opera director, film director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television pres...
). Though she grew up Roman as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus persuades Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia resents this, but still falls in love with Marcus.

Meanwhile, Nero's atrocities become increasingly more outrageous and his acts more insane. When he burns Rome and blames the Christians, Marcus goes off to save Lygia and her family. Nero captures them and all the Christians, and condemns them to be killed in the arena. Marcus is also arrested for trying to save Lygia. In prison, Peter
Saint Peter

Saint Peter was a leader of the early Christianity church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles....
 (Finlay Currie
Finlay Currie

Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish people actor on stage, screen and television.Born in Edinburgh, Currie's acting career began on the stage....
), who has also been arrested, marries the couple; eventually, Peter is crucified upside-down, implicitly at his own request ("To die as Our Lord did is more than I deserve," he says, and the Praetorian guard
Praetorian Guard

The Praetorian Guard was a special force of guards used by Roman empire List of Roman Emperorss. Before being appropriated for the use of the Emperors' personal guards, the title was used for the guards of Roman generals, at least since the rise to prominence of the Scipio family around 275 BC....
 sneeringly answers, "We can change that").

Poppaea, Nero's wife, who lusts after Marcus, devises a diabolical revenge for his rejection of her. Lygia is tied to a wooden stake in the arena. A wild bull is also placed there, and Lygia's bodyguard giant, Ursus (Buddy Baer
Buddy Baer

Buddy Baer , born Jacob Henry Baer, was an American boxer, and the brother of heavyweight champion Max Baer . He boxed 57 professional fights, won 50 with 44 knockouts, and was defeated 7 times....
) must try to kill it with his bare hands, otherwise Lygia will be gored to death. Marcus is tied to the spectator's box and forced to watch, much to the horror of his officers, who also attend the spectacle. When all seems hopeless, Marcus exclaims "Christ, give him strength!", whereupon Ursus is able to break the bull's neck. Hugely impressed by Ursus' courage, the crowd exhorts Nero to spare them, which the emperor is not willing to do. However, Nero's four court retainers Seneca (Nicholas Hannen), architect Phaon (D.A. Clarke-Smith), Lucan (Alfredo Varelli), and Terpnos (Geoffrey Dunn) vouch for the mob's demands by putting their thumbs up as well. Marcus then breaks free of his bonds, leaps into the arena, frees Lygia with the help of his loyal troops, and announces that General Galba
Galba

Servius Sulpicius Galba , also called Servius Sulpicius Galba Caesar Augustus, was Roman Emperor from June 8, 68 until his death. He was the first emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors....
 is at that moment marching on Rome, intent on replacing Nero.

The crowd, now firmly believing that Nero, and not the Christians, is responsible for the burning of Rome, revolts. Nero flees to his palace, where he strangles Poppaea to death, blaming her for forcing him to make martyrs of the Christians. Then Acte
Claudia Acte

Claudia Acte was a freedman of ancient Rome who became a mistress of the emperor Nero. She came from Asia Minor and might have become a slave of the Emperor Claudius, following his expansion of the Roman Empire into Lycia and Pamphylia; or she might have been purchased later, by Octavia, Claudius' daughter....
, a Christian woman who was once in unrequited love with Nero, appears. Because he lived like a monster, she begs him to die like an emperor by committing suicide before the mob storms the palace. The cowardly Nero cannot bring himself to do it, so Acte drives the dagger into his chest.

Marcus, Lygia and Ursus are now free and leave Rome. By the roadside, Peter's crook has miraculously sprouted flowers. The radiant light intones, "I am the way, the truth, the life."

Cast

  • Robert Taylor
    Robert Taylor (actor)

    Robert Taylor was an United States actor....
     - Marcus Vinicius
  • Deborah Kerr
    Deborah Kerr

    Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, Commander of the British Empire was a Scottish people stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance in Tea and Sympathy, which she appeared in on Broadway , a Golden Globe Award for the motion picture, The King and I , and she was al...
     - Lygia
  • Leo Genn
    Leo Genn

    Leo John Genn was an English people actor on stage and in films....
     - Petronius
    Petronius

    Gaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman Empire courtier during the reign Nero. He is speculated to be the author of the Satyricon, a satire believed to have been written during the Neronian age....
  • Peter Ustinov
    Peter Ustinov

    Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE or ;, born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.Ustinov was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre director and opera director, film director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television pres...
      - Nero
    Nero

    Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty....
  • Patricia Laffan - Poppaea
  • Finlay Currie
    Finlay Currie

    Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish people actor on stage, screen and television.Born in Edinburgh, Currie's acting career began on the stage....
      - Peter
    Saint Peter

    Saint Peter was a leader of the early Christianity church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles....
  • Abraham Sofaer
    Abraham Sofaer

    Abraham Sofaer was a Burma Jewish stage actor who became a familiar supporting player on film and television in his later years. He was born in Rangoon, Burma ....
      - Paul
    Paul of Tarsus

    Saint Paul, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul or Paul of Tarsus , was a Hellenistic Judaism, who called himself the "Apostle to the Gentiles", and was, together with Saint Peter and James the Just, the most notable of early Christian missionaries....
  • Marina Berti
    Marina Berti

    Elena Maureen Bertolini, known as Marina Berti, , was an Italy film actress.Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941....
      - Eunice
  • Buddy Baer
    Buddy Baer

    Buddy Baer , born Jacob Henry Baer, was an American boxer, and the brother of heavyweight champion Max Baer . He boxed 57 professional fights, won 50 with 44 knockouts, and was defeated 7 times....
      - Ursus
    Ursus (film character)

    Ursus is the name of two fictional characters in literature and film.He is a fictional character created by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Quo Vadis, a strong man hired to be the heroine Lygia's bodyguard who eventually saves her life....
  • Felix Aylmer
    Felix Aylmer

    Sir Felix Aylmer, Order of the British Empire , born Felix Edward Aylmer Jones, was a distinguished England stage actor who also appeared in the cinema and on television....
      - Plautius
    Aulus Plautius

    Aulus Plautius was a Roman empire politician and general of the mid-1st century. He led the Roman conquest of Britain in 43, and became the first List of Roman governors of Britain of the new province, serving from 43 to 47....
  • Nora Swinburne
    Nora Swinburne

    Nora Swinburne was a United Kingdom actor, born Elinore Johnson in Bath, Somerset, daughter of Henry Swinburne Johnson and his wife Leonora Tamia ....
      - Pomponia
  • Ralph Truman
    Ralph Truman

    Ralph Truman was a British actor, usually cast as either a villain or an authority figure. He possessed a distinguished speaking voice. His best-remembered roles include Tigellinus in MGM's Quo Vadis , the French herald Mountjoy in Laurence Olivier's film Henry V , the evil Monks in David Lean's Oliver Twist , and the Police I...
      - Tigellinus
    Tigellinus

    Gaius Ofonius Tigellinus, also known as Ophonius Tigellinus and Sophonius Tigellinus , was a Praetorian prefect of the Ancient Rome imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, from 62 until 68, during the reign of Roman Emperor Nero....
  • Norman Wooland
    Norman Wooland

    Norman Wooland was a Great Britain character actor who appeared in many major films, notably in several Shakespearean ones. He was born in Germany....
      - Nerva
  • Peter Miles
    Peter Miles (child actor)

    Peter Miles, born April 1 1938, Tokyo, Japan as Gerald Perreau-Saissine, was a child actor and writer.His first acting role was as Humphrey Bogart's character's son in 1944 in film's Passage to Marseille....
      - Nazarius
  • Geoffrey Dunn - Terpnos
  • D.A. Clarke-Smith - Phaon
  • Rosalie Crutchley
    Rosalie Crutchley

    Rosalie Crutchley was an England actress. Trained at the Royal Academy of Music, Crutchley was best known for her television performances, but had a long and successful career in the theatre and in films, making her stage debut in 1938 and her screen debut in 1947....
      - Acte
    ACTE

    The Alabama Council for Technology in Education was founded in the early 1980s to promote general education and knowledge of technology for Alabama students in grades 3-12 in many areas ranging from computer literacy to video production....
  • John Ruddock - Chilo
  • Arthur Walge - Croton
  • Elspeth March - Miriam
  • Strelsa Brown
    Strelsa Brown

    Strelsa Brown is an England motion picture actress.Her film career began with an uncredited part in The Ghosts of Berkeley Square in 1947....
      - Rufia
  • Alfredo Varelli - Lucan
    Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

    Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , better known in English language as Lucan, was a Roman Empire poet, born in Corduba , in the Hispania Baetica. Despite his short life, he is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Classical Latin#Silver_Age_Latin period....
  • William Tubbs - Anaxander
  • Pietro Tordi
    Pietro Tordi

    Pietro Tordi , is a Italy film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1942 in film and 1988 in film.He was born in Florence, Italy....
      - Galba
    Galba

    Servius Sulpicius Galba , also called Servius Sulpicius Galba Caesar Augustus, was Roman Emperor from June 8, 68 until his death. He was the first emperor of the Year of the Four Emperors....
  • Nicholas Hannen - Seneca
    Seneca the Younger

    Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Ancient Rome Stoicism philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature....
  • Adrienne Corri
    Adrienne Corri

    'Adrienne Corri' is an actress of Italian people parentage.She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs. Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange , and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River and as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr....
     
  • Bud Spencer
    Bud Spencer

    Bud Spencer is an Italy actor,film maker, former swimmer . He is known for his height at 6'4 1/2" and his past roles in spaghetti westerns. Growing from a successful swimmer in his youth, he later achieved a degree in law, and has registered several patents....
     - Imperial guard
  • Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon

    Walter Davis Pidgeon was an American actor of Canada birth, who lived most of his life in the United States, and eventually became a U.S. citizen....
      - Narrator


Awards and nominations


Academy Awards

Quo Vadis was nominated for eight Academy Awards
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
: twice for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 (Leo Genn
Leo Genn

Leo John Genn was an English people actor on stage and in films....
 as Petronius and Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE or ;, born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinow, was a British actor, writer and dramatist.Ustinov was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre director and opera director, film director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television pres...
 as Nero), and also for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color
Academy Award for Best Art Direction

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in film. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art director#Film on a film....
 (William A. Horning
William A. Horning

William A. Horning is a multiple Academy Award winner. He was born on November 9, 1904, in Missouri, and died of cancer on March 2, 1959, in Los Angeles, California....
, Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons

Austin Cedric Gibbons, was an Irish American art director who was one of the most important and influential in the field in the history of United States film....
, Edward Carfagno
Edward Carfagno

Edward Carfagno was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Academy Awards-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful , Joseph Mankiewicz's Julius Caesar and William Wyler's Ben-Hur ....
, Hugh Hunt
Hugh Hunt

Hugh Hunt was an American set decorator. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Academy Award for Best Art Direction....
), Best Cinematography, Color
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture....
, Best Costume Design, Color
Academy Award for Costume Design

This Academy Awards was first given for films made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies....
, Best Film Editing
Academy Award for Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. The name of this award is occasionally changed; in 2008, it was listed as the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing....
, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
Academy Award for Original Music Score

The Academy Award for Original Music Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of Film score written specifically for the film by the submitting composer....
, and Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
. However, the movie did not win a single Academy Award.

Golden Globe Awards

Peter Ustinov won the Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
 Best Supporting Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture

Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor ? Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 in film for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year....
. The Golden Globe for Best Cinematography was won by Robert Surtees and William V. Skall. The film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture - Drama

Worldwide release dates

  • U.S.:November 8, 1951
  • U.K.: January 25, 1952
  • Canada
    Canada

    Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
    : February 1, 1952
  • Brazil
    Brazil

    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
    : February 25, 1952
  • Argentina
    Argentina

    Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
    : March 13, 1952
  • Uruguay
    Uruguay

    Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
    : July 3, 1952
  • Mexico
    Mexico

    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
    : August 6, 1952
  • Chile
    Chile

    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
    : September 10, 1952
  • Ecuador
    Ecuador

    Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
    : October 8, 1952
  • Venezuela
    Venezuela

    Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
    : October 8, 1952
  • Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
    : November 7, 1952
  • South Africa
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
    : November 12, 1952
  • India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
    : November 13, 1952
  • Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    : December 19, 1952
  • Philippines
    Philippines

    The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
    : January 16, 1953
  • Singapore
    Singapore

    Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands....
    : January 22, 1953
  • Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    : January 31, 1953
  • Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
    : February 18, 1953
  • Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe

    Zimbabwe , is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo River rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east....
    : March 4, 1953 (Rhodesia
    Rhodesia

    Rhodesia was the name adopted when the formerly British colonies of Southern Rhodesia declared itself independent on 11 November 1965. The name was also used with the establishment of Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979....
    )
  • Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    : March 5, 1953

  • Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
    : March 24, 1953
  • Hong Kong
    Hong Kong

    Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
    : April 1, 1953
  • Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
    : April 17, 1953
  • New Zealand
    New Zealand

    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
    : May 29, 1953
  • Indonesia
    Indonesia

    The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
    : August 8, 1953
  • Egypt
    Egypt

    Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
    : August 20, 1953
  • Finland
    Finland

    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
    : August 28, 1953
  • Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
    : September 15, 1953
  • France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
    : October 1, 1953
  • Colombia
    Colombia

    Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
    : October 8, 1953
  • Sweden
    Sweden

    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
    : October 22, 1953
  • Luxembourg
    Luxembourg

    Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a small landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany....
    : January 1, 1954
  • Iceland
    Iceland

    Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
    : February 5, 1954
  • Spain
    Spain

    Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
    : February 11, 1954
  • Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
    : March 15, 1954
  • Austria
    Austria

    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
    : March 18, 1954
  • Netherlands
    Netherlands

    The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
    : April 30, 1954
  • West Germany
    West Germany

    West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
    : August 13, 1954
  • Norway
    Norway

    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
    : August 23, 1957
  • Denmark
    Denmark

    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
    : February 22, 1960


See also

  • List of epic films


External links