“A festival of excess in a pagan province.”
—Bright Lights Film Journal

“DeMille has never staged a spectacle more stately or powerful than his arena sequence nor touched such spiritual splendor.”
—The Los Angeles Times

This pre-code biblical epic is probably best known for its salacious sequence in which Claudette Colbert takes a milk bath, but even more shocking is the climactic, snuff-film-like spectacle in the Roman Colosseum. With Charles Laughton as a ripe, camp Emperor Nero and Fredric March. In 35mm.