The Last Days of Pompeo

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The Last Days of Pompeo
Directed by Mario Mattoli
Written by Aldo De Benedetti
Produced by Liborio Capitani
Starring Enrico Viarisio
Roberta Mari
Camillo Pilotto
Cinematography Domenico Scala
Edited by Fernando Tropea
Music by Giulio Bonnard
Production
companies
Capitani Film
ENIC
Distributed byGeneralcine
Release date
1937
Running time
72 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The Last Days of Pompeo (Italian: Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo) is a 1937 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Enrico Viarisio, Roberta Mari and Camillo Pilotto. [1] The film's title is an allusion to the novel The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It refers to a character in contemporary Italy named Pompeo.

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The film's was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome.

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  1. Apra p.101

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