Screen Italy: Buy the wife a slave UK bank managers give you grief. Their Italian peers sell you centurions, gladiators and vestal virgins. By James Hill

From: The Independent - London | Date: March 25, 2000| Author: James Hill | Copyright information

AS I exchanged some sterling for a shoebox full of lire with my bank manager, we pondered if the new film version of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus would be enough to lure Charlton Heston out of retirement.

Filmed at the legendary Cinecitta Studios and other stark Mussolinian buildings and sites in Rome, the film opens in Italy this weekend. Modern- day Romans are hoping that Titus will return their city to the glory of the cinematic Fifties and films like Quo Vadis and Ben Hur. In th...

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