“De Mille's bang-them-on-the-head-with-wild-orgies-and-imperilled-virginity style is at its ripest; the film is just about irresistible.”

—  Pauline Kael

"The Sign of the Cross," p. 680.
5001 Nights at the Movies (1982)

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