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The Last Days of Pompeii

Year:

1935

Duration:

96 min

Genres:

Adventure | Drama

IMDB rate:

6.5

Director:

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1935-10-18

Filming Locations: Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Jim Thorpe

Preston Foster

Marcus

Alan Hale

Burbix

Basil Rathbone

Pontius Pilate

John Wood

Flavius, as a Man

Louis Calhern

Prefect (Allus Martius)

David Holt

Flavius, as a Boy

Dorothy Wilson

Clodia

Wyrley Birch

Leaster

Gloria Shea

Julia

Frank Conroy

Gaius Tanno

William V. Mong

Cleon, the Slave Dealer

Murray Kinnell

Simon, Judean Peasant

Henry Kolker

Warder

Edward Van Sloan

Calvus

Zeffie Tilbury

The Wise Woman

John Davidson

Phoebus, Runaway Slave

Betty Allen

Woman (uncredited)

Reginald Barlow

The Janitor of the Slave Market (uncredited)

Maurice Black

Attendant in Gladiators' Training Room (uncredited)

Ward Bond

Murmex of Carthage, a Gladiator (uncredited)

Tom Brower

Runaway Slave (uncredited)

Curley Dresden

Cato the Gladiator (uncredited)

Helen Freeman

Martha (uncredited)

Winston Hibler

Marcellus (uncredited)

Thomas E. Jackson

The Lanista (uncredited)

Bruce King

Scythian Prisoner (uncredited)

Marc Loebell

Lucius

Michael Mark

Pompeii Nobleman (uncredited)

Edwin Maxwell

The Augur, a Pompeii Official (uncredited)

Margaret McWade

Calvus' Wife (uncredited)

Jack Mulhall

Citizen of Pompeii (uncredited)

John T. Murray

Pilate's Servant (uncredited)

Ole M. Ness

Drusus, Runaway Slave

Marie Osborne

Extra (uncredited)

Jason Robards Sr.

Tax Gatherer (uncredited)

Hannah Williams

Citizen of Pompeii (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Despite all the spectacle, the movie was a box-office flop, and required several re-releases (on a double bill with King Kong (1933)) to earn back its cost.

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If you listen closely during the African scene, you can hear several "words" used by Noble Johnson in King Kong.

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According to the book The RKO Story, this film cost $237,000 more than it grossed in its original release, but finally broke even with the box office from a 1949 re-release, paired with She (1935).

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Goofs

Pontius Pilate committed suicide in Gaul in approximately 38 A.D. and could not have been present in Pompeii during the same year that Mt Vesuvius erupted (79 AD).

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The central subplot of the meeting with Jesus is impossible, as Pompeii was destroyed after his death in 79 A.D. Given these dates, Flavius would have been a middle aged man, clearly not the youth in his 20's as portrayed in the film.

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As Vesuvius erupts, a large gladiator statue topples in the arena. In the first view, a long shot, the statue cracks open across the chest, at the bottom of the rib cage. In the next view, from the perspective of a man about to be crushed, the torso is intact, and the crack is at the statue's neck.

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Quotes

Pontius Pilate: I am innocent of the blood of this just man.

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Prefect: What do you keep behind these locks and bolts?

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Gaius Tanno: You remind me of an acrobat in the arena walking on a rope stretched high in the air.

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