Vittorio De Sica, Brigitte Bardot, Gloria Swanson. Alberto Sordi as Nero.
Italian comedy. Nero is vacationing on the coast when his mother comes to visit. Gloria Swanson dubbed in Italian but acting much as she did in Sunset Boulevard was pretty good as the emporer's mother, Agrippina. Nothing was terribly funny, but it was amusing in its way. Nero keeps trying to murder his mother. When someone advises him to have a deaf-mute kill her because they can't talk if they're caught, he orders that a slave be taken away and rendered deaf and mute in a horrible way. You can't portray ancient Romans as normal people, but how should you react to that?
Directed by Steno. Cinematography by Mario Bava.
In color, available on Tubi and Amazon Prime.
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