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Bookmark this pageSign of the Pagan (1954)
Director: Douglas Sirk
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An immensely interesting though finally unsuccessful film. Sirk's hopes of transforming the project into a version of Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great were thwarted by Universal. However, the film's historical dimension - Attila the Hun's attempt to destroy the Roman Empire, with Palance as Attila, and Chandler as Rome's would-be Christian defender - together with Sirk's unusually hysterical conception of the central character, throw a suggestive light on the seemingly slight reverberations of his better-known domestic melodramas.Author: PH
Cast & crew
Director: Douglas Sirk
Producer: Albert J Cohen
Cast: Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance, Ludmilla Tcherina, Rita Gam, Jeff Morrow, George Dolenz, Eduard Franz, Alexander Scourby full cast
Genre(s): Epics
Duration: 92 mins
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