He jumps into the arena to defend a surviving child, and asks for the other Christians to be set free.

Constantine leaves his bride to be, Princes Fausta, and learns from his dying father, the Emperor of Gaul, that his mother Helena is a Christian.

Constantinus defeats Maxientus and becomes Emperor of Rome alongside Fausta, while Helena blesses them both.

[1] The New York Times called it "one of those ponderous costumed tabloids that's trampled history to death and turned what's left of its fragments into boring banalities.

"[6] The Monthly Film Bulletin said "the familiar ingredients of this tired spectacle - lions, fair haired Christian girls, torture chambers, battles, assassination attempts, intrigue - fail to arouse any noticeable excitement in the director or the cast.