The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
Charles Laughton
- Tiberius Claudius
- (archive footage)
Flora Robson
- Self
- (as Dame Flora Robson)
- …
Eileen Bowen-Jones
- Self - Script Girl
- (as Eileen Corbett)
Robert Newton
- Captain of Caligula's guard
- (archive footage)
- Director
- Bill Duncalf(uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of the first documentaries to make use of the opening theme from Richard Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra", later made more famous in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey".
- Quotes
Himself - Host: The public, thank heavens, never knows the private anguish actors sometimes go through.
- ConnectionsEdited from I, Claudius (1937)
- SoundtracksAlso sprach Zarathustra
(opening fanfare)
Music by Richard Strauss
Heard at the beginning and the end of the program
Featured review
Great movie on the making and unmaking of an epic
A look at never completed version of I, Claudius. This is a wonderful look at film making in the golden age, both as it was and as memory has made it. We get to see the stars and crew talk about a project that got away and how it still haunts them.
This is one of the best films on films ever made, partly because it shows us what might have been a treasure, but also because it does what what movies do best, create an illusion of something that doesn't really exist. With a film like this, made decades after events, the mind is left to ponder what the aborted film might have been. From the few scraps of actual footage we expand it out to a completed film that might have been one of the greatest films of all time. Of course it all could have gone south as well, but the fun is in what might have been....
10 out of 10
A Personal request- would someone please put this out on DVD by itself, its stupid to make us buy the BBC miniseries just to be able to see this.
This is one of the best films on films ever made, partly because it shows us what might have been a treasure, but also because it does what what movies do best, create an illusion of something that doesn't really exist. With a film like this, made decades after events, the mind is left to ponder what the aborted film might have been. From the few scraps of actual footage we expand it out to a completed film that might have been one of the greatest films of all time. Of course it all could have gone south as well, but the fun is in what might have been....
10 out of 10
A Personal request- would someone please put this out on DVD by itself, its stupid to make us buy the BBC miniseries just to be able to see this.
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- dbborroughs
- Oct 23, 2004
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- Also known as
- Filmforum: Ich, Claudius
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- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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