The Epic That Never Was

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

Documentary

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))