The Last Days of Pompeii ( Air Date 1984-05-06 ) Genre Drama category. 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.".
The Last Days of Pompeii
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- Stars: Linda Purl, Anthony Quayle, Duncan Regehr, Laurence Olivier, Benedict Taylor, Gerry Sundquist, Catriona MacColl, Malcolm Jamieson, Tony Anholt, David Robb, Stephen Greif, Peter Cellier, Barry Stokes, Howard Lang, Joyce Blair, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Brian Croucher, Marilù Tolo, Ned Beatty, Brian Blessed, Franco Nero, Lesley-Anne Down, Nicholas Clay, Siobhán McKenna, Ernest Borgnine, Olivia Hussey
- Director: Peter H. Hunt, Ken Shane, Ariel Levy, Chris Carreras, Trevor Jones
