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The Last Days of Pompeii
7.1
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3 x 140m
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1984
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Ended
Overview
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.
Cast
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Linda Purl
Nydia
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Anthony Quayle
Quintus
![Duncan Regehr pic](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FjkKDRObnVSdQV7PCUssqD804HDD.jpg&w=320&q=75)
Duncan Regehr
Lydon
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Laurence Olivier
Gaius
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Benedict Taylor
Antonius
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Gerry Sundquist
Clodius
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Catriona MacColl
Julia
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Malcolm Jamieson
Petrus
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Tony Anholt
Lepidus
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David Robb
Sallust
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Stephen Greif
Sporus
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Peter Cellier
Calenus
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Gar
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Howard Lang
Medon
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Joyce Blair
Lucretia
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