Quo Vadis
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Oct 27, 2026
Adam SpiessHOST
No.
Adam SpiessHOST
It is a film called Quo Vadis.
Adam SpiessHOST
Quo Vadis.
Adam SpiessHOST
I think I've heard of Quo.
Adam SpiessHOST
It's okay.
RobHOST
Let's spin the wheel for that one.
RobHOST
The 1951 film Quo Vadis.
RobHOST
Oh, okay.
RobHOST
Back when they loved doing biblical epics or Roman epics or whatever you want to call it.
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By 1931, a few notes could do a different job.
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In Fritz Lang's film M, a child murderer whistles Grieg's tune.
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A blind balloon seller hears him do it again and recognises him.
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The sound becomes evidence.
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They do not have to reproduce his steadily swelling orchestra.
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A year later, British instrumental group Nero and the Gladiators made a rock single out of it.
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They even wore plastic Roman costumes salvaged from the film Quo Vadis.
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The name promised theatre.
Victoria HarleyHOST
And then a bunch of models get set on fire.
Victoria HarleyHOST
And yeah, that's... it's kind of the movie um cinematography was by harold e wellman it was edited by ben lewis and music by russell garcia filming started in july 1960 and several sequences were filmed off of catalina island in california i mentioned that there was a lot of stock footage used in this and oh boy was there um i mean respect to going into MGM's archives and being like, hey, what do we got? What can I use? Because we've got clips from Quo Vadis, a 1951 American religious epic historical film that was set in ancient Rome.
Victoria HarleyHOST
There's footage from Naked Jungle, a 1954 American adventure film that is starring Charlton Heston and is about an attack of army ants on a Brazilian cocoa plantation.
Victoria HarleyHOST
I haven't seen that one, but...
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Victoria HarleyHOST
You know, it's kind of hard to stomach listening to people like John Landis uh wonder about his career as if John Landis did nothing wrong so okay back to Atlantis there was a preview of the film a questionnaire was distributed to the viewers a thing that often happens uh or happened I don't know how often they do this now They were asked what scene they liked.
Victoria HarleyHOST
Because of the use of so much stock footage, a critic after my own heart answered, the scene where Robert Taylor saved Deborah Kerr from the fire.
Victoria HarleyHOST
This was in reference to the fact that a lot of the stock footage came from Quo Vadis.
Victoria HarleyHOST
So Sal Ponte played Demetrius.
Matt BurlingameHOST
So we also had Rosalie Crutchley, who played Mrs. Dudley, the stern and unsettling housekeeper.
Matt BurlingameHOST
Also, she appeared in Quo Vadis.
Matt BurlingameHOST
Quo Vadis.
Matt BurlingameHOST
Oh, okay.
Matt BurlingameHOST
We'll go with that.
QuintonHOST
A very similar story to that.
QuintonHOST
Although I was not a fan of Quo Vadis at all.
QuintonHOST
I thought that movie was pretty poor.
QuintonHOST
I think it was my least favorite from that year.
Gary ArndtHOST
Biblical sword and sandal epics suited this strategy in particular.
Gary ArndtHOST
The Robe, The Ten Commandments, and Quo Vadis demonstrated the enormous audience for such films.
Gary ArndtHOST
And MGM still controlled the rights to Ben-Hur, and at the time, the studio desperately needed a hit.
Gary ArndtHOST
The studio took a gamble hiring William Wyler to direct and casting Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur and Stephen Boyd as Messala.
QuintonHOST
1952, the Oscar ceremony took place on March 20th to celebrate the films of 1951.
QuintonHOST
The five Best Picture nominees... were, of course, the eventual Best Picture winner itself in American in Paris, as well as Decision Before Dawn, A Place in the Sun, Quo Vadis, and A Streetcar Named Desire.
QuintonHOST
So that is the lineup of movies here.
QuintonHOST
A Streetcar Named Desire, in particular, probably being the most iconic one of the bunch.
SushHOST
So,
QuintonHOST
Quentin, tell me about them.
QuintonHOST
You're not familiar with Quo Vadis? Come on, man.
QuintonHOST
That movie's a classic.