The doctors could not be sure just what had caused Gregory Peck's eye infection, but M-G-M found its effects painfully clear: the moviemaking machinery had grown so complicated that an actor's inflamed eye was enough to inflict a year's postponement (and thus tie up $1,000,000 already spent) on "the biggest picture of all time."
For months M-G-M had throbbed with preparations for a super-epic Quo Vadis, based on the famed Sienkiewiecz novel about Roman persecution of the early Christians. Filming was to start July 1 in Rome on a $4, 000,000-to-$5,000,000 budget, a whopper...
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