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* NamesTheSame: When spoken, the name of the actress who plays Diana sounds like bass player from Music/{{KISS}}.
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* NamesTheSame: When spoken, the name of the actress who plays Diana sounds like bass player from Music/{{KISS}}.
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** At one point the producers considered making Marcellus older and casting Creator/LaurenceOlivier.

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** At one point the producers considered making Marcellus older and casting Creator/LaurenceOlivier. Creator/TyronePower was also considered.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/RichardBurton and Jean Simmons had an affair during filming. Her husband, Stuart Granger, even threatened Burton with a gun.

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* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/RichardBurton and Jean Simmons Creator/JeanSimmons had an affair during filming. Her husband, Stuart Granger, even threatened Burton with a gun.



** Creator/JanetLeigh was considered for Diana.

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** Creator/JanetLeigh was considered for Diana.Diana.
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* FollowTheLeader: Came out after ''Literature/QuoVadis'' revived interest in film epics, particularly Roman themed ones, ones which were most often Christian-themed in nature.

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* FollowTheLeader: Came out after ''Literature/QuoVadis'' revived interest in film epics, particularly lavish epic films. Particularly Roman themed ones, era ones which were most often Christian-themed in nature.with religious themes.
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* FollowTheLeader: Came out after ''Literature/QuoVadis'' revived interest in film epics, particularly Roman themed ones, ones which were most often Christian-themed in nature.
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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/RichardBurton hated the film so much that he turned down a contract from 20th Century-Fox. He was amazed to receive an Oscar nomination after critics had almost universally described his performance as "wooden". Also, being an Atheist, he didn't care for the film's religious themes.
* RecycledSet: The set of Cana, the village of Galilea where Marcellus Gallio meets Peter, was a redress of sets originally built for ''Film/{{Algiers}}'', that had stood on the studio backlot for seventeen years. The sets were later used in ''Demetrius and the Gladiators'' - this film's sequel - as the Christian neighborhood in Rome where Demetrius lives in the beginning of the movie. The well with the old broken columns can be easily recognized.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/RichardBurton and Jean Simmons had an affair during filming. Her husband, Stuart Granger, even threatened Burton with a gun.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** At one point the producers considered making Marcellus older and casting Creator/LaurenceOlivier.
** Creator/BurtLancaster was originally cast as Demetrius.
** Creator/JanetLeigh was considered for Diana.

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