Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
TV movie
Director: Peter R. Hunt.
Starring: Ned Beatty (Diomed), Brian Blessed (Olinthus), Ernest Borgnine (Marcus), Nicholas Clay (Glaucus), Lesley-Anne Down (Chloe), Olivia Hussey (Ione), Siobhan McKenna (Fortunata), Franco Nero (Arbaces), Linda Purl (Nydia), Anthony Quayle (Quintus), Duncan Regehr (Lydon), Laurence Olivier (Gaius).
Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. and covered the village of Pompeii
Historical Background:
See Ultimi giorni di Pompei, Gli (Last Days of Pompeii) (1960).
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