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I, Claudius (film)

I, Claudius was the proposed 1937 film of the book I, Claudius. It was to have been produced by Alexander Korda, directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Charles Laughton (as Claudius), Emlyn Williams (as Caligula), Flora Robson (as Livia), and Merle Oberon (as Messalina), but it was dogged by ill-luck, culminating in a car accident involving Oberon, which caused filming to be abandoned. The BBC used the existing footage in a 70-minute documentary The Epic That Never Was (1965), included in the DVD box set of the BBC series I, Claudius, that includes about 25 minutes of original footage from the cancelled film.

External Links

• "Outta Gas - Film Threat's Top 10 Unfinished Films of All Time"
• "The Epic That Never Was"
• "DiCaprio Mooted for I, Claudius Movie"

Bibliography

• Baxter, John (1971). "14. The Fall of Claudius", The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg. London: Tantivy Press, pp.136-149.
• Solomon, Jon (2001). The Ancient World in the Cinema: Revised and Expanded Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp.78-79, etc. ISBN 0-3000-8337-8.
• Tucker, Steve. "Cursed but a Triumph!", South Wales Echo, December 16, 2005.
• Von Sternberg, Josef (1965). Fun in a Chinese Laundry. New York: Macmillan, pp.172-189.