The Epic That Never Was (1969)
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
- Released
- 1969-09-19
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Bill Duncalf
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 8 votes
Cast
- Dirk Bogarde as Self - Narrator
- Charles Laughton as Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
- Robert Graves as Self - Interviewee
- Josef von Sternberg as Self - Interviewee
- Merle Oberon as Self - Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage)
- Flora Robson as Self - Interviewee / Livia (archive footage)
- Emlyn Williams as Self - Interviewee / Caligula (archive footage)
- Eileen Corbett as Self - Interviewee
- John Armstrong as Self - Interviewee
- John Abbott as 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)
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