Broadcast: 8th May 1939

Starring: Cecil B DeMille

Added: Jun 13 2001

Paris, 1862. Louis Napoleon is Emperor of France and his reign is one of suppression. New thoughts, liberal ideas are vigorously opposed. The great city lies beaten under the lash of authority. It is deep winter, a biting wind screams across the roofs of the Latin quarter, rattling the windows of squalid rooms. Behind one of these windows is Emile Zola…