The Epic That Never Was

Bill Duncalf
1969-09-19


6.875
74 min

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

Cast

Name Character Team
Dirk Bogarde Self - Narrator Unowned
Charles Laughton Tiberius Claudius (archive footage) Unowned
Robert Graves Self - Interviewee Unowned
Josef von Sternberg Self - Interviewee Unowned
Merle Oberon Self - Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage) Unowned
Flora Robson Self - Interviewee / Livia (archive footage) Unowned
Emlyn Williams Self - Interviewee / Caligula (archive footage) Unowned
Eileen Corbett Self - Interviewee Unowned
John Armstrong Self - Interviewee Unowned
John Abbott Ms. Robson's Host (uncredited) Unowned
Robert Newton Cassius, Captain of Caligula's guard (archive footage) (uncredited) Unowned
Basil Gill Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) Unowned