Scenes from THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII (1984; TV)
The matte shot is ok but the smoke looks like smoke from a chemistry set. The explosion of Mount Vesuvius is good and bad. The pyrotechnics are great and believable (smoke, fires, etc) but the volcano itself looks like cardboard. The shot at the bottom looks like miniatures. A mix bag. Somehow, the eruptions in previous movies, certainly the 1959 version with Steve Reeves, were more effective. The next issue of BY THE GODS! will cover disasters in PEPLUM movies.
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