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On the way to a slave auction, Marcellus Gallio, a Roman military tribune and senator's son, helps recapture Demetrius, a defiant Greek slave. At the auction site, Marcellus is reunited with Diana, his childhood love, who is now a ward of Emperor Tiberius and has been pledged in marriage to the regent Caligula. Marcellus has a longstanding feud ...
The Robe is a 1942 historical novel about the Crucifixion of Jesus, written by Lloyd C. Douglas.The book was one of the best-selling titles of the 1940s. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list in October 1942, four weeks later rose to No. 1, and held the position for nearly a year.
After his friends Marcellus and Diana are executed for heresy and treason, Demetrius makes it his mission to hide the Robe of Christ. One day, while with his beloved, Lucia (Debra Paget), he is arrested for assaulting a Roman centurion and sentenced to the arena. There, Demetrius trains as a gladiator and soon wins acclaim, proving his valor ...
The Robe (1942) by Lloyd C. Douglas was one of the best-selling novels of the 1940s and dramatizes the crucifixion of Jesus from the point of view of Marcellus Gallio, the Roman tribune who commands the garrison that carries out the crucifixion of Jesus. Marcellus winds up in custody of Jesus' robe and converts to Christianity because of his ...
Marcellus and Augustus' general Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa were the two popular choices as heir to the empire. According to Suetonius, this put Agrippa at odds with Marcellus, and is the reason why Agrippa traveled away from Rome to Mytilene in 23 BC. [1] That year, an illness was spreading in Rome which afflicted both Augustus and Marcellus.
Marcellus Jr., Larry Komp, and Adnan Sultan of the Midwest Innocence Project sat in the viewing area opposite. The area reserved for members of the victim’s family remained empty. All was quiet.
Richard Burton – The Robe as Marcellus Gallio; Montgomery Clift – From Here to Eternity as Private Robert E. Lee "Prew" Prewitt; Burt Lancaster – From Here to Eternity as First Sergeant Milton Warden; Audrey Hepburn – Roman Holiday as Princess Ann‡ Leslie Caron – Lili as Lili Daurier; Ava Gardner – Mogambo as Eloise Kelly
Three cases are pending before the U.S. Supreme Court with only hours remaining before Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed in Missouri. Williams’ death warrant goes into effect at 6 p ...