The Last Days of Pompeii
1908
Drama
History
Overview
Pompeii 79AD, mere days before the Vesuvian eruption. Glaucus and Jone are in love with each other. Arbaces, the Egyptian High Priest, is determined to conquer Jone. Glaucus purchases Nydia, the blind and long-suffering slave. Nydia falls in love with Glaucus and asks Arbaces for his help. He gives her a potion to make Glaucus fall in love with her-- In fact, a poison which will cause violent insanity.
Cast
Luigi Maggi
Arbace
Umberto Mozzato
Glauco
Lydia De Roberti
Nidia
Ernesto Vaser
Il padrone di Nidia
Mirra Principi
Roberto Omegna
Directors
Arturo Ambrosio
Luigi Maggi
