A 1965 BBC TV Documentary hosted by Dirk Bogarde.
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage. The film uses unedited rushes from the film, contemporary glimpses of โฆ
A 1965 BBC TV Documentary hosted by Dirk Bogarde.
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage. The film uses unedited rushes from the film, contemporary glimpses of the abandoned Denham Film Studios, and modern interviews with Robert Graves, Merle Oberon, Flora Robson, Josef von Sternberg, Emlyn Williams and costume designer John Armstrong.
The Epic That Never Was includes more than 20 minutes of original footage from the uncompleted 1937 film. It incorporates two extended scenes featuring Laughton; briefer scenes featuring Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton, Flora Robson and Merle Oberon; crowd scenes presenting sixty Vestal Virgins, a cinematic exaggeration of the traditional six; and views of Vincent Korda's opulent sets.
"A truly wrenching what-if was the loss of the 1937 version of I, Claudius, with Charles Laughton as the limping, stuttering, intensely admirable soon-to-be-Roman-emperor Claudius," wrote Warren Clements of The Globe and Mail. He called the original rushes seen in the BBC documentary "achingly wonderful".
In Senses of Cinema, film scholar Robert Keser wrote:
"The surviving sequences that are included do suggest that an uncommonly ambitious work of both luminous beauty and ruthless psychology was underway. Dirk Bogarde concludes his narration by wondering who else would make another attempt at filming I, Claudius, raising the final irony that scarcely a decade later, in 1976, the BBC itself would produce its memorably intense and flawlessly played television version".
Next: I Claudius: A Television Epic
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