The Epic That Never Was

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

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  Charles Laughton

  Tiberius Claudius (archive footage)
• 
  Robert Graves

  Interviewee [original author]
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  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)
• 
  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)