A drama with adventure , romance , action and battles set in Italy of The Borgias . Stars fatherless Andrea Zoppo (Tyrone Power) , a handsome and well-educated man who serves to ambitious Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles) , with his equally corrupt sister Lucrezia , hoping to become the most powerful ruler in Renaissance Italy. Erstwhile Orsini is the Angela Borgia 's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as Caesar Borgia . Orsini, along with Belli (Everett Sloane) , another cunning nobleman and assassin , ingratiates himself with seventy year-old Count Verano (Felix Aylmer) , the governor of the fortified town of Citta del Monte. Over the next few months Orsini becomes more and more impressed by the Count's honor , nobility, and wisdom, he also becomes increasingly enamored with Camilla (Wanda Hendrix) , Verano's twenty year-old wife. Although she reciprocates his feelings, the younger woman remains faithful to her husband, and and doesn't consummate them. When Borgia demands Varano cede troops to his service , he renounces by urgeing to resist him . Orsini at the beginning pledges himself to the cause of defending the tyrant Borgias , but a bit later , he turns the tables .King of romantic epics !.3 years in the making !.A spectacular cast of 50,000 !.Filmed amid the splendor and magnificence of its original locale !
Adventure and thrilling movie set in Italia in the turbulent late 16th century . It is a rousing , moving , stirring tale , but rough-edged fare . Dealing with interesting issues , such as ambition , treason and territory encroachment to unification Italian nation . Tyrone Power gives a good acting , as usual .Tyrone is prettu good as the commoner, masquerades as a member of the noble Orsini family and wins favor with the ambitious and Machiavellian Cesare Borgia, , here Tyrone seems to be more serious than the Swashbucklers or pirate movies he played when his good looks and swordmanship were both at their peak and much competition with Errol Flynn in the adventure stakes , such as : ¨Black Swan , The Zorro , Prince of Foxes , Captain from Castile and The Black Rose¨ . These enjoyable films were all well played by Power who was nearly at his most agile and deft style , as he starred various ¨Sword and Swagger¨ films and was superstar of Hollywood swashbucklers . In addition , there are strong performances from Orson Welles as Caesar , Wanda Hendrix as the young wife and other notorious secondaries as Everett Sloane , Marina Berti, Katina Paxinou , Eduardo Ciannelli and Felix Aylmer as the aging ruler puts the question Borgia's subjects .
It packs an evocative photography in black and white by Leon Shamroy . Shot on location in San Marino , Venice, Veneto, Terracina, Latina, Lazio, Chapel of Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Tuscany, San Gimignano, Siena, Tuscany , Florence, Tuscany , Italy and Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy.Lavishly produced by Sol S. Siegel and Twentieth Century Fox . Moving as well as sensitive musical score by classy maestro Alfred Newman . The motion picture was well directed by Henry King . He was an expert on adventure genre , as Henry made ¨Stanley and Livingstone¨ , assisted uncredited in ¨Son of Fury¨ , directed the masterpiece : ¨The black swan¨ , and ¨Prince of Foxes¨ , the Biblical : ¨David and Bathseba¨ , ¨The snows of Kilimanjaro¨ and ¨Untamed¨ . As well as ¨Lloyd's of London¨ and ¨In old Chicago¨ .Rating : better than average . The flick will appeal to Tyrone Power fans .
The film is freely based on Cesar Borgia . The actual events were the following ones : Cesare Borgia was a Spanish-Italian politician and condottiero (mercenary leader) whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. He was an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Spanish-Aragonese House of Borgia. After initially entering the church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the Papacy, he became, after the death of his brother in 1498, the first person to resign a cardinalate. He served as a condottiero for the King of France Louis XII around 1500 and occupied Milan and Naples during the Italian Wars. At the same time he carved out a state for himself in Central Italy, but after his father's death he was unable to retain power for long. According to Machiavelli, this was not due to a lack of foresight, but his error in creating a new pope. Cesare's career was founded upon his father's ability to distribute patronage, along with his alliance with France , in the course of the Italian Wars. Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499; after Gian Giacomo Trivulzio had ousted its duke Ludovico Sforza, Cesare accompanied the king in his entrance into Milan.Cesare was appointed commander of the papal armies with a number of Italian mercenaries, supported by 300 cavalry and 4,000 Swiss infantry sent by the King of France. Alexander sent him to capture Imola and Forlì, ruled by Caterina Sforza . Despite being deprived of his French troops after the conquest of those two cities, Borgia returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph and to receive the title of Papal Gonfalonier from his father. In 1500 the creation of twelve new cardinals granted Alexander enough money for Cesare to hire the condottieri, Vitellozzo Vitelli, Gian Paolo Baglioni, Giulio and Paolo Orsini, and Oliverotto Euffreducci, who resumed his campaign in Romagna.Giovanni Sforza, first husband of Cesare's sister Lucrezia, was soon ousted from Pesaro; Pandolfo Malatesta lost Rimini; Faenza surrendered, its young lord Astorre III Manfredi being later drowned in the Tiber by Cesare's order. In May 1501 the latter was created duke of Romagna. Hired by Florence, Cesare subsequently added the lordship of Piombino to his new lands.On 24 June 1501 his troops stormed the latter, causing the collapse of Aragonese power in southern Italy.
Adventure and thrilling movie set in Italia in the turbulent late 16th century . It is a rousing , moving , stirring tale , but rough-edged fare . Dealing with interesting issues , such as ambition , treason and territory encroachment to unification Italian nation . Tyrone Power gives a good acting , as usual .Tyrone is prettu good as the commoner, masquerades as a member of the noble Orsini family and wins favor with the ambitious and Machiavellian Cesare Borgia, , here Tyrone seems to be more serious than the Swashbucklers or pirate movies he played when his good looks and swordmanship were both at their peak and much competition with Errol Flynn in the adventure stakes , such as : ¨Black Swan , The Zorro , Prince of Foxes , Captain from Castile and The Black Rose¨ . These enjoyable films were all well played by Power who was nearly at his most agile and deft style , as he starred various ¨Sword and Swagger¨ films and was superstar of Hollywood swashbucklers . In addition , there are strong performances from Orson Welles as Caesar , Wanda Hendrix as the young wife and other notorious secondaries as Everett Sloane , Marina Berti, Katina Paxinou , Eduardo Ciannelli and Felix Aylmer as the aging ruler puts the question Borgia's subjects .
It packs an evocative photography in black and white by Leon Shamroy . Shot on location in San Marino , Venice, Veneto, Terracina, Latina, Lazio, Chapel of Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Tuscany, San Gimignano, Siena, Tuscany , Florence, Tuscany , Italy and Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy.Lavishly produced by Sol S. Siegel and Twentieth Century Fox . Moving as well as sensitive musical score by classy maestro Alfred Newman . The motion picture was well directed by Henry King . He was an expert on adventure genre , as Henry made ¨Stanley and Livingstone¨ , assisted uncredited in ¨Son of Fury¨ , directed the masterpiece : ¨The black swan¨ , and ¨Prince of Foxes¨ , the Biblical : ¨David and Bathseba¨ , ¨The snows of Kilimanjaro¨ and ¨Untamed¨ . As well as ¨Lloyd's of London¨ and ¨In old Chicago¨ .Rating : better than average . The flick will appeal to Tyrone Power fans .
The film is freely based on Cesar Borgia . The actual events were the following ones : Cesare Borgia was a Spanish-Italian politician and condottiero (mercenary leader) whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. He was an illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and member of the Spanish-Aragonese House of Borgia. After initially entering the church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the Papacy, he became, after the death of his brother in 1498, the first person to resign a cardinalate. He served as a condottiero for the King of France Louis XII around 1500 and occupied Milan and Naples during the Italian Wars. At the same time he carved out a state for himself in Central Italy, but after his father's death he was unable to retain power for long. According to Machiavelli, this was not due to a lack of foresight, but his error in creating a new pope. Cesare's career was founded upon his father's ability to distribute patronage, along with his alliance with France , in the course of the Italian Wars. Louis XII invaded Italy in 1499; after Gian Giacomo Trivulzio had ousted its duke Ludovico Sforza, Cesare accompanied the king in his entrance into Milan.Cesare was appointed commander of the papal armies with a number of Italian mercenaries, supported by 300 cavalry and 4,000 Swiss infantry sent by the King of France. Alexander sent him to capture Imola and Forlì, ruled by Caterina Sforza . Despite being deprived of his French troops after the conquest of those two cities, Borgia returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph and to receive the title of Papal Gonfalonier from his father. In 1500 the creation of twelve new cardinals granted Alexander enough money for Cesare to hire the condottieri, Vitellozzo Vitelli, Gian Paolo Baglioni, Giulio and Paolo Orsini, and Oliverotto Euffreducci, who resumed his campaign in Romagna.Giovanni Sforza, first husband of Cesare's sister Lucrezia, was soon ousted from Pesaro; Pandolfo Malatesta lost Rimini; Faenza surrendered, its young lord Astorre III Manfredi being later drowned in the Tiber by Cesare's order. In May 1501 the latter was created duke of Romagna. Hired by Florence, Cesare subsequently added the lordship of Piombino to his new lands.On 24 June 1501 his troops stormed the latter, causing the collapse of Aragonese power in southern Italy.