Spectacle in the expected silent Italian style with elaborate sets, athletic events, and a notorious Roman empress lusting after a Persian slave who drives chariots.
Messalina lives with her husband, Claudius, in the Imperial Palace. He is a nephew of Caligula. Caligula is a great tyrant and Messalina takes advantage of the hatred of the people to make her husband Emperor. She and an Egyptian princess fall in love with a famous chariot driver. Jealousy between the two arises and they plot to outwit each other. A young girl slave with whom the driver is in love, brings about the death of the princess and Messalina and unites the two young lovers.—Exhibitors Herald, September 13, 1924