Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis (1951)

Ending / spoiler

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As Emperor Nero's palace is being taken over by the raging populace at the end, Nero is finally stabbed (voluntarily) to death by a loyal female servant he once banished for the sin of loving him. Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr leave Rome shortly afterwards in search of a new life.

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Revealing mistake: When the Christians are being fed to the lions, we can see that when a lion "attacks" one of the men, the man is actually smiling and visibly playing with that wild animal.

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Emperor Nero: Poppaea, one woman shouldn't judge another. She hasn't the glands for it. Ha-ha.

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Trivia: Galva, the general who claims the emperor's throne after Nero's death, didn't last long as an emperor himself: just four months later, he was murdered by his Pretorian Guardsmen.

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