Julius Caesar Against the Pirates explained

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates
Producer:Gastone Gugliemetti
Screenplay:
  • Gino Mangini
  • Fabio De Agostini
  • Maria Grazia Borgiotti
  • Sergio Grieco
Story:Maria Grazia Borgiotti
Starring:
Music:Carlo Innocenzi
Cinematography:Vincenzo Seratrice
Editing:Enzo Alfonzi
Studio:C.A.P.R.I.
Distributors:-->
Runtime:93 minutes
Country:Italy

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates (Italian: Giulio Cesare contro i pirati) is a 1962 Italian adventure film written and directed by Sergio Grieco and starring Gustavo Rojo, Abbe Lane and Gordon Mitchell.[1] [2] It is loosely based on actual events from the early life of Julius Caesar.

Plot

It's 75 BC and Rome is in turmoil. Killers are on the loose. The dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix is having all the Roman Senatorswho refuse to support him murdered.Julius Caesar must flee due to his wife's Cornelia family's ties to Sulla's enemies. Caesar decides to flee Rome to the court of his friend, King Nicomedes of Bithynia. While traveling to Mileto, Caesar is captured by pirates and taken to their island fortress on the island of Formacusa. The pirates led by Hamar are engaged in hostilities with Bithynia, and Caesar swears that once he has paid his ransom of fifty talents of gold, he will return and destroy the pirates.

Cast

Production

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates was shot at INCOM studios in Rome with sea battle scenes filmed in Yugoslavia.

Release

Julius Caesar Against the Pirates was released in Italy on April 23, 1962.

References

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Della Casa, Steve; Giusti, Marco. Il grande libro di Ercole. pp. 164–165. Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Edizioni Sabinae, 2013. .
  2. Casadio, Gianfranco. I mitici eroi. p. 258. Longo Editore, 2007. .