The Last Days of Pompeii

Runtime : 140 mins

Genre : Drama

First Aired 06-May-1984

This seven-hour British-Italian adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lyttons 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 Members

Nydia
played by
Linda Purl

Quintus
played by
Anthony Quayle

Lydon
played by
Duncan Regehr

Gaius
played by
Laurence Olivier

Antonius
played by
Benedict Taylor

Clodius
played by
Gerry Sundquist

Julia
played by
Catriona MacColl

Petrus
played by
Malcolm Jamieson

Lepidus
played by
Tony Anholt

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