Past Event
Sunday, January 6, 2019, 1 p.m.
Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross
1100 Market Street, San Diego, 92101
Frederic March stars as as Marcus Superbus, the prefect of Rome forced to choose between the love of a Christian temptress (Elissa Landi) and his devotion to Emperor Nero (preening Charles Laughton, giddily fiddling as backlot Rome smolders). Cecil B. DeMille's capper to his trilogy of biblical epics — this follows The Ten Commandments (1923) and King of Kings (1927) — finds the director/showman working at the peak of his pre-code powers. 100 minutes worth of licentious cavorting chased with 8 glorious minutes of redemptive torture. All this and pygmy-on-a-stick! If it plays on a theatre screen located within a 100 mile radius of where you live, be there! — Scott Marks