The Epic That Never Was
65 %|Sep 19, 1969|Documentary
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
Featured Crew
Bill Duncalf
Producer
Bill Duncalf
Director
Sarah Jennings
Research Assistant
Charles Parnall
Camera Operator
David Findlay
Camera Operator
David Samuelson
Camera Operator
Alan Featherstone
Camera Operator
Robert Kauffman
Camera Operator
Cast
Charles Laughton
Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
Robert Graves
Interviewee [original author]
Josef von Sternberg
Interviewee [director] / Himself (archive footage)
Merle Oberon
Interviewee / Messalina (archive footage)
Flora Robson
Interviewee / Livia (archive footage)
Emlyn Williams
Interviewee / Caligula (archive footage)
Eileen Corbett
Interviewee [script girl]
John Armstrong
Interviewee [costume designer]
Dirk Bogarde
Narrator
John Abbott
Himself – Ms. Robson's Host (uncredited)
Robert Newton
Cassius, Captain of Caligula's guard (archive footage; uncredited)
Basil Gill
Xenophon, Claudius' doctor (archive footage; uncredited)