Back The Sign of the Cross (cinta de 1932) AN The Sign of The Cross Welsh Korsets tegn (film) Danish Im Zeichen des Kreuzes (1932) German El signo de la cruz Spanish Ristin merkki Finnish Le Signe de la croix French The Sign of the Cross (film 1932) ID Il segno della croce (film) Italian The Sign of the Cross Dutch
| The Sign of the Cross | |
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| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Screenplay by | |
| Based on | The Sign of the Cross by Wilson Barrett |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Karl Struss |
| Edited by | Anne Bauchens |
| Music by | Rudolph G. Kopp |
Production company | Paramount Pictures |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $694,065[1] |
| Box office | $2,738,993[1] |
The Sign of the Cross is a 1932 American pre-Code epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and released by Paramount Pictures. Based on the original 1895 play by English playwright Wilson Barrett,[2] the screenplay was written by Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman. It stars Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, and Charles Laughton, with Ian Keith and Arthur Hohl.
Both play and film have a strong resemblance to the 1895–96 novel Quo Vadis and, like the novel, take place in ancient Rome during the reign of Nero. The art direction and costume design were by Mitchell Leisen, who also acted as assistant director. Karl Struss was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.[3] It is the third and last in DeMille's biblical trilogy, following The Ten Commandments (1923) and The King of Kings (1927).
- ^ a b Birchard 2004, p. 251.
- ^ See Barrett (1896).
- ^ Awards for The Sign of the Cross, IMDB.com; accessed August 5, 2015.