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The different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the Earth.
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- 1984-05-06
- Action, Drama, History
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The Last Days of Pompeii is an Italian-American 1984 television miniseries filmed at Pinewood Studios and broadcast on ABC-TV and Rai, adapting the 1834 novel of the same name by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
ActorNameDescriptionLepidusA Roman noble; friend of Glaucus, Clodius ...DiomedA wealthy merchant; married to Lucretia ...LucretiaA wealthy Roman; married to Diomed and ...OlinthusA blacksmith and devout Christian.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 ...
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A 2022 miniseries adaptation of the novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, set in the doomed city of Pompeii in A.D. 79. Find out how to watch, stream, and see the cast and crew of this ABC drama.
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An influential Italian epic that paved the way for the elaborate costume drama, THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII romanticizes the final hours of those ill-fated souls living in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.
- 88 min
Franco Nero, Laurence Olivier and Lesley-Anne Down star in a 1984 miniseries about greed and decadence in 79 A.D. Rome.
The Last Days of Pompeii. Summaries. The different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the Earth.
