'The Management deem it a great honour to present to the Amusement Loving Public of Australia Cines' 8000 ft. Spencers Pictures Ltd secured the Australasian rights to the motion picture for the record sum of £4000 after phenomenal success at the box office across Europe. Heroine Lygia enters the stadium lashed against her will to the back of a mad bull. Ravenous lions stalk sacrificial Christians blamed for the apocalyptic blaze in the burning of Rome.
Reported as being the most expensive production of this nature to date, in "Quo Vadis?" we see the dramatic enactment of cruel and violent public spectacles hosted in Nero's huge amphitheatre.
Tightly modelled after an historical novel of the same name by Nobel prize-winning author, Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in Poland in 1895, "Quo Vadis?" is set in Rome at the time of Emperor Nero's reign, circa 64 AD.
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