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Director:
Vittorio Cottafavi
Writers:
Ennio De Concini (screenplay)
Ennio De Concini (story)
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Release Date:
10 November 1961 (Finland) more
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Messing about playing with Messalina. more

Cast

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Belinda Lee ... Messaline
Spiros Focás ... Lucio Massimo
Carlo Giustini ... Lucius Geta (as Carlo Justini)
Giancarlo Sbragia ... Aulo Celso
Giulio Donnini ... Narcissus
Arturo Dominici ... Gaius Lilius
Ida Galli ... Silvia (as Arianna Galli)
Marcello Giorda ... Nicodemus
Mino Doro ... Claudius
Annie Gorassini
Aroldo Tieri
Giuliano Gemma ... Marcellus
Lia Angeleri
Vittorio Congia
Paola Pitagora (as Paola Gargeloni)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Messalina (USA)
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Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16

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1 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Messing about playing with Messalina., 4 February 2006
Author: dbdumonteil

The screenplay itself is a Messalina mess:combining politics ,love,ambitions,crimes,persecutions of Christians (I thought they began during Nero's reign?),it may entertain you if you do not take it seriously.There's nothing "cultural" here as in Cottafavi's notorious "legioni di Cleopatra" (1960) where Linda Cristal(The queen of Egypt!) went to dance in Alexandria's taverns .

Here,in a cheap junk antiquity, Belinda Lee is making it rough all over .But only the last scenes (the orgy turning into a slaughter)have something to do with cinema.A young Giuliano Gemma appears briefly as a killer who falls for the empress:he will lose his head! (in the literal and figurative senses )

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