John Fostini

シェンキウィッチの歴史小説を壮大なスケールで映像化した、50年代を代表するスペクタクル史劇。暴君ネロの時代、ローマ軍の大隊長マーカスは美しきクリスチャンの娘リジアに恋をする。だが二人の心はすれ違って……。

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.