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The Last Days of Pompeii

Jone ovvero gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

1913·95 min·IT
Director: Giovanni Enrico Vidali, Ubaldo Maria Del Colle

79 AD. In the city of Pompeii the young Glaucus loves beautiful Jone, although he's courted by Giulia and secretly loved by his blind slave Nidia. One day Glaucus is wrongly accused of murder by a priest of Isis, Arbace, who wants to marry Jone and please Giulia. Glauco is condemned to be devoured by lions in the arena of the city, on that very day the erupting Vesuvius. Jone ovvero gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (1913) was one of two major Italian productions of The Last Days of Pompeii done in 1913, and not to be confused by the more famous Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (1913).

79 AD. In the city of Pompeii the young Glaucus loves beautiful Jone, although he's courted by Giulia and secretly loved by his blind slave Nidia. One day Glaucus is wrongly accused of murder by a priest of Isis, Arbace, who wants to marry Jone and please Giulia. Glauco is condemned to be devoured by lions in the arena of the city, on that very day the erupting Vesuvius. Jone ovvero gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (1913) was one of two major Italian productions of The Last Days of Pompeii done in 1913, and not to be confused by the more famous Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (1913).

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Cast

Cristina Ruspoli

Cristina Ruspoli

Jone

L

Luigi Mele

Glauco

G

Giovanni Enrico Vidali

Arbace

S

Suzanne De Labroy

Nidia

G

Giovanni Ciusa

M

Michele Ciusa

Caleno

G

Giuseppe Majone Diaz

Il taverniere Burbio

I

Ines Melidoni

Giulia