The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) original souvenir cinema brochure front cover - dark marbled stone texture with bold gold serif lettering SAMUEL BRONSTON'S THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Original Cinema Brochure – Sophia Loren, Alec Guinness, Stephen Boyd, Samuel Bronston

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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) original souvenir cinema brochure front cover - dark marbled stone texture with bold gold serif lettering SAMUEL BRONSTON'S THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) original souvenir cinema brochure front cover - dark marbled stone texture with bold gold serif lettering SAMUEL BRONSTON'S THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) original cinema brochure back cover - matching dark marbled stone texture, showing age-related creasing consistent with 60-year-old brochure
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) cinema brochure interior double-page colour spread - full-scale Roman Forum production set, Ciudad de la Cinematografia Madrid, Corinthian temple, central column with gilded victory figures, colonnaded galleries, colossal Egyptian statue, thousands of extras
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) cinema brochure interior - Sophia Loren as Lucilla cast profile with black and white production photographs; Stephen Boyd as Livius cast profile with portrait photograph
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) cinema brochure interior - Profile of an Epic essay by Samuel Bronston with full-page colour photograph captioned Marcus Aurelius with Timonides the philosopher and Livius the warrior pleading with his Legions for support of the Pax Romana - Alec Guinness and Stephen Boyd in full armour
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) original souvenir cinema brochure front cover - dark marbled stone texture with bold gold serif lettering SAMUEL BRONSTON'S THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) original cinema brochure back cover - matching dark marbled stone texture, showing age-related creasing consistent with 60-year-old brochure
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) cinema brochure interior double-page colour spread - full-scale Roman Forum production set, Ciudad de la Cinematografia Madrid, Corinthian temple, central column with gilded victory figures, colonnaded galleries, colossal Egyptian statue, thousands of extras
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) cinema brochure interior - Sophia Loren as Lucilla cast profile with black and white production photographs; Stephen Boyd as Livius cast profile with portrait photograph
  • The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) cinema brochure interior - Profile of an Epic essay by Samuel Bronston with full-page colour photograph captioned Marcus Aurelius with Timonides the philosopher and Livius the warrior pleading with his Legions for support of the Pax Romana - Alec Guinness and Stephen Boyd in full armour
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Original Cinema Brochure – Sophia Loren, Alec Guinness, Stephen Boyd, Samuel Bronston

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Original Cinema Brochure – Sophia Loren, Alec Guinness, Stephen Boyd, Samuel Bronston

£22.99
£22.99

An original souvenir cinema brochure for Samuel Bronston’s The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), directed by Anthony Mann. Screenplay by Academy Award winner Philip Yordan and Ben Barzman. Produced by Samuel Bronston, Associate Producer Michael Waszynski. A Samuel Bronston Production for Paramount Pictures.

The cover features a bold dark marbled stone texture ground with large-format gold serif lettering: SAMUEL BRONSTON’S / THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE — monumental in design and entirely appropriate for one of the most ambitious epic productions in Hollywood history. The back cover carries the same marbled design, showing honest age-related creasing consistent with a 60-year-old brochure.

The interior opens with a magnificent double-page spread colour photograph of the Roman Forum production set — a full-scale recreation of ancient Rome built at the Ciudad de la Cinematografía studios near Madrid, at the time the largest film set ever constructed. Thousands of costumed extras fill the frame before a soaring Corinthian temple, a great central column topped with gilded victory figures, colonnaded galleries, and a colossal Egyptian statue — an astonishing image of Hollywood epic-making at its absolute zenith.

A further full-page colour production photograph, captioned in the brochure: “Marcus Aurelius with Timonides, the philosopher, and Livius, the warrior, pleads with his Legions for support of the Pax Romana and his dream of world peace.” The image shows Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius and Stephen Boyd as Livius, in full armour before the assembled Legions — one of the great images of 1960s Hollywood cinema.

The brochure includes dedicated cast profile pages: Sophia Loren as Lucilla, daughter of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius — described as “a Roman to the bone” — her 36th film, with credits including her Academy Award-winning performance in Two Women and the unforgettable Chimene in El Cid. The profile notes her command of Italian, French, Spanish, English and Portuguese, her patronage of major European restaurateurs, and her discovery as a tall, slender girl sitting beside her anxious mother among the spectators at the Fondo Carlo Ponti beauty contest. Stephen Boyd as the warrior Livius — born in Belfast, trained at the Windsor Repertory Company, internationally known from Ben-Hur and The Man Who Never Was, described as one of the most popular actors in films today.

The interior essay “Profile of an Epic” by Samuel Bronston describes the extraordinary production: $100,000 a day in running costs; 35 days of filming in the Legion City set alone; research drawn from Dio Cassius, Pliny the Elder, Tacitus, and Suetonius; and the assembling of historians, writers, sculptors, and engineers to authenticate every detail of the Roman world. The story centres on the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius and his succession — and the threat of his son Commodus, who “crowded all that was best and worst of the Roman world into the 12 blazing years that he reigned.”

Sophia Loren is one of the great names of world cinema — the only person to win an Academy Award for a non-English-language performance, an international icon, and one of the most collectible names in film memorabilia. Alec Guinness needs no introduction. An original souvenir brochure from this Bronston epic, with both stars’ profiles and magnificent colour production photography, is a desirable piece of golden age Hollywood cinema history.

Condition: Wear consistent with age, may show light creasing or minor marks. Please refer to all photos for a full assessment. This is an old brochure, don’t expect mint condition!

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