The Epic That Never Was
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
Release Date: 1969-09-19
Documentary
★★★★★★★★★★ (7 votes)
Official website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025pqq
Casts
Charles Laughton
as Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
Robert Graves
as Interviewee [original author]
Josef von Sternberg
as Interviewee [director] / Himself (archive footage)
Merle Oberon
as Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage)
Flora Robson
as Interviewee / Livia (archive footage)
Emlyn Williams
as Interviewee / Caligula (archive footage)
Dirk Bogarde
as Narrator
John Abbott
as Himself – Ms. Robson's Host (uncredited)
Robert Newton
as Cassius, Captain of Caligula's guard (archive footage; uncredited)
Basil Gill
as Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)
