![]() The contents of the jewel box are now displayed next to the body of Quintillus in the museum. Tina demands to see the stony body since Paul has to return to the museum to answer some more questions by the police. She dreamed of the excavation and the driver's death. A dream she had the night before was the inspiration for the bound figure of a Roman slave. Paul pays a visit to his fiancée, Tina Enright (Elaine Edwards) at her apartment. Emanuel that he doesn't believe in the curse, that it killed Tony, or that it is alive. A preliminary examination by Paul shows blood on one of the hands. The stony body of Quintillus (Bob Bryant) is wheeled in by Enricco Ricci. The inscription by Quintillus Aurelius contains a curse warning anyone who, "Stands between me and what is mine shall perish." Paul and Maria voice their skepticism. At the museum, Emanuel explains the meaning of the inscription, and that one death will not be all. Fiorillo that he has translated the inscription on the medallion, but wants to discuss his findings in private, not in front of the police. Paul tells Maria his fiancée is an artist and her name is Tina Enright. Maria was unaware of this and asks her name. Emanuel, Paul informs Maria that he is engaged to be married. Emanuel (Felix Locher) drives up to the accident scene. They are asked not to touch anything by the investigating police officer. Paul and Maria examine the damaged truck. Fiorillo and Enricco examine the stony body for damage as Tony's body is loaded into an ambulance. They drive out to the scene of the accident. Fiorillo is informed that the truck crashed and Tony, the driver, was killed. It attacks and kills the driver, Tony (uncredited). In the truck, the stony body frees itself from the crate. The inscription on the medallion was in Etruscan. Emanuel, a specialist in ancient languages. Fiorillo tells his daughter, Paul and Enricco about the simultaneous discovery of the gold jewel box and its contents with that of the stony figure. Maria had been an item with Paul earlier, and Enricco is jealous. ![]() Enricco tells Maria he wishes her father had called someone other than Paul to assist. Next to arrive at the museum are Maria Fiorillo (Adele Mara) and Dr. Fiorillo asks Paul to do some tests when it arrives. On the way the stony figure reaches out from its wooden packing crate. The body is being transported to the museum. Fiorillo tells Paul of the discovery at the dig. Carlo Fiorillo (Luis Van Rooten) at the door. ![]() Paul Mallon (Richard Anderson) walks up the steps and is greeted by Dr. A car drives up to the museum (Griffith Park Observatory in Los Angeles). It is destined for the Museo di Pompeii in Naples. ![]() A stony hand pushes its way out of the ground. Dirt moves above him and a gold jewelry box falls into the trench below. On a quiet August afternoon, almost 2000 years ago, the volcano erupted, the Earth shook, day became night, birds fell dead from the sky, fish died as the oceans boiled, and the people of Pompeii perished under an avalanche of volcanic ash and stone, burned, suffocated, crushed." At the Pompeii dig a laborer is working in a trench. Destroyed by a mountain of seething hell known as Vesuvius. with narration, "79 years after the birth of Christ, the city of Pompeii ceased to exist. The opening shot is a scene of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. He is reclining on a marble slab in a museum. Title and credits roll over the eponymous faceless man, a stony relic of the destruction of the city of Pompeii in 79 A.D.
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