Scipio the African

Directed by Luigi Magni

With Marcello Mastroianni, Ruggero Mastroianni, Turi Ferro, Woody Strode and Silvana Mangano

Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.