The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
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The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
Plot.
This seven-hour British-Italian adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 epic, set against the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and previously filmed in 1935, and in 1960 was a vehicle for muscleman Steve Reeves, was trashed by the critics as the campiest of sword and sandal sagas to emerge in years. This despite its reported $19-million price tag, the nobility of its cast that includes Laurence Olivier, Siobhan McKenna and Anthony Quayle, and its rather unspectacular special effects. The central figures are Nicholas Clay as Glaucus, the noble Athenian; Olivia Hussey as the high-born Ione, his love, who is seduced by the Egyptian, Arbaces (Franco Nero), a religious fanatic; Duncan Regehr as Lydon, the champion gladiator; and Linda Purl as the blind slave Nydia, who is torn between Glaucus and Lydon.
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Cast & Crew.
Ned Beatty
Diomed
Duncan Regehr
Lydon
Brian Blessed
Olinthus
Ernest Borgnine
Marcus
Laurence Olivier
Gaius
Nicholas Clay
Glaucus
Benedict Taylor
Antonius
Lesley-Anne Down
Chloe
Gerry Sundquist
Clodius
Olivia Hussey
Ione
Catriona MacColl
Julia
Siobhán McKenna
Fortunata
Malcolm Jamieson
Petrus
Tony Anholt
Lepidus
Franco Nero
Arbaces
Linda Purl
Nydia
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 6, 1984
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes3
Running Time2h 20m
Genres
Wiki.
The Last Days of Pompeii is an Italian-American 1984 television miniseries filmed at Pinewood Studios and broadcast on ABC-TV and Rai, adapting the 1834 novel of the same name by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It was the second English-language adaptation of the book for film or television (previously adapted mainly in Italian; the 1935 RKO film was unrelated to the novel and the 1900 adaptation by Walter R. Booth, while the first cinematic adaptation in English was a short film).
On June 5, 2012, Sony released the mini-series on DVD.
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