Sep 19, 1969
74 min
Full-HD

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.

Dirk Bogarde

Self - Narrator

Charles Laughton

Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)

Robert Graves

Self - Interviewee

Josef von Sternberg

Self - Interviewee

Merle Oberon

Self - Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage)

Flora Robson

Self - Interviewee / Livia (archive footage)

Emlyn Williams

Self - Interviewee / Caligula (archive footage)

Eileen Corbett

Self - Interviewee

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The Epic That Never Was (1969)

Dirk Bogarde

Charles Laughton

Robert Graves

Josef von Sternberg

Merle Oberon

Flora Robson

Emlyn Williams

Eileen Corbett