Quo Vadis (1924 film)
is a 1924 Italian silent historical drama film directed by Gabriellino D'Annunzio and Georg Jacoby and starring Emil Jannings, Elena Sangro, and Lillian Hall-Davis.[2] Rudolph Valentino was invited to star in the film, but was forced to turn the offer down due to contractual reasons.Bruno Kastner was initially cast for the film, but withdrew due to an illness causing all of his scenes to be reshot.[6] The film was a critical and commercial failure on its release, effectively ending the career of its producer Arturo Ambrosio, who had been one of the major figures of early Italian cinema.The New Yorker noted that Jannings was the "one item beside boredom"[10] the movie had, but despite his "able performance"[10] they "still prefer him in Germanic studio surroundings".