The Queen of Babylon

1954 Italian film

Queen of Babylon

Directed by| Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Screenplay by| Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

Ennio De Concini
Alessandro Ferraù
Cesare Ludovici
Giuseppe Mangione

Nicola Manzari
Starring| Rhonda Fleming
Ricardo Montalbán
Cinematography| Gábor Pogány
Music by| Renzo Rossellini

Production
companies

Panthéon Productions
Rialto

Release date

* October 28, 1954 (1954-10-28) (Italy)

Running time

| 98 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

The Queen of Babylon (Italian: La cortigiana di Babilonia) is a 1954 Italian peplum film set in the Neo-Babylonian Empire in the year 600 BC.

This film was directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.[1]

## Plot

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Semiramis, a simple keeper of goats, is taken to Babylon for having lodged Amal, the leader of the Chaldeans, pursued by King Ashur. She is noticed by the latter, who would like to make her his favorite. But the beauty has thoughts only for her attractive Amal who managed to escape and comes to visit her discreetly at the palace. Captured again, Amal escapes death thanks to Semiramis who gives in to the king, and he finds himself with his compatriots to toil in the quarries. The deceit of Sibari, the Prime Minister, will change his fate.

## Cast

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* Rhonda Fleming as Semiramis
* Ricardo Montalbán as Amal (credited as Ricardo Montalban)
* Roldano Lupi as Assur
* Carlo Ninchi as Sibari
* Tamara Lees as Lysia
* Furio Meniconi as Bolgias
* Gildo Bocci

## See also

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* I Am Semiramis
* War Gods of Babylon

## References

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1. ^ Hawkins, Robert F. (2 January 1955). "NOTED IN THE BUSTLING ITALIAN FILM STUDIOS / Expatriates". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 June 2020.

## External links

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* The Queen of Babylon at IMDb

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Films directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

* Your Money or Your Life (1932)
* Bad Subject (1933)
* Unripe Fruit (1934)
* Tomb of the Angels (1937)
* Mad Animals (1939)
* Two on a Vacation (1940)
* The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941)
* After Casanova's Fashion (1942)
* Violets in Their Hair (1942)
* Life Is Beautiful (1943)
* Music on the Run (1943)
* Come Back to Sorrento (1945)
* The Other (1947)
* The White Primrose (1947)
* 47 morto che parla (1950)
* Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950)
* Bluebeard's Six Wives (1950)
* Toto Looks for a Wife (1950)
* Una bruna indiavolata! (1951)
* At Sword's Edge (1952)
* Don Lorenzo (1952)
* I'm the Hero (1952)
* Orient Express (1954)
* The Queen of Babylon (1954)
* The Mighty Crusaders (1958)
* The Sword and the Cross (1958)
* Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! (1958)
* Hannibal (1959)
* The Loves of Hercules (1960)
* Amazons of Rome (1961)
* Ursus in the Valley of the Lions (1961)
* The Four Musketeers (1963)

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