John Huston was the original director, under the supervision of producer Arthur Hornblow, with a cast headed by Gregory Peck as Marcus and Dame Elizabeth Taylor as Lygia. The studio was dissatisfied with the footage Huston was sending back from Rome, and production chief Louis B. Mayer, an archconservative, unhappy with the script, which used Emperor Nero's persecution of the Christians as an allegory for the anti-Communist witch-hunts, to which Hollywood was then being subjected. After a couple of weeks' shooting, MGM shut down the production, ordered a new script written, re-cast the movie, and persuaded Mervyn LeRoy to assume direction of this movie.

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