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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.

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Linda Purl

    Nydia

  2. Cast 1

    Anthony Quayle

    Quintus

  3. Cast 1

    Duncan Regehr

    Lydon

  4. Cast 1

    Laurence Olivier

    Gaius

  5. Cast 1

    Benedict Taylor

    Antonius

  6. Cast 1

    Gerry Sundquist

    Clodius

  7. Cast 1

    Catriona MacColl

    Julia

  8. Malcolm Jamieson

    Petrus

  9. Cast 1

    Tony Anholt

    Lepidus

Last Season

Poster

Miniseries

1984 | 3 episodes

season 1 of The Last Days of Pompeii premiered on May 6, 1984.

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Status Ended

Network Network

TypeScripted

Original LanguageEnglish 

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