The movie was adapted by Paul Osborn[?] from two novels -- Borden Deal[?]'s Dunbar's Cove and William Bradford Huie[?]'s Mud on the Stars. It was directed by Elia Kazan.
... At the time of Justinian, he was a Christian and possibly bishop of Croton. In approximately 580, he wrote "De origine actibusque Getarum[?]" (The origin and deeds of ...