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Released
1951 · FILM

Quo Vadis

A Roman commander torn between his love for a Christian hostage and loyalty to the corrupt Emperor Nero must confront his beliefs as Rome descends into chaos.

THIS IS THE BIG ONE! The splendor and savagery of the world's wickedest empire! Three hours of spectacle you'll remember for a lifetime!

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Runtime
174 min
DramaRomance

Synopsis

A Roman commander named Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with Lygia, a beautiful Christian hostage, which leads him to question the tyrannical rule of Emperor Nero.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ralph E WintersShot by William V SkallScored by Miklos Rozsa

Box Office

1951 · Box office

Made its money back — grossed 2.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$21.0M

Budget$7.6M
Worldwide gross$21.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Quo Vadisde
  • Quo vadis?it

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