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The Last Days of Pompeii is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack released in USA on 18 october 1935 with Preston Foster
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 18 october 1935
Length 1h36
OriginUSA
Themes Films set in Africa, La fin du monde, Sports films, Volcanisme, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films
Rating63%
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) is an RKO Radio Pictures film starring Preston Foster and directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, creators of the original King Kong. Although inspired by the novel of the same name by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the film has virtually nothing to do with the book.
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In the time of Jesus Christ, blacksmith Marcus (Preston Foster) is content with his life, beautiful wife Julia (Gloria Shea) and six-month-old son. However, when Julia and their child are run down by a chariot in the streets of Pompeii, Marcus spends the little money he has to pay for a doctor and medicine. Needing more, in desperation, he becomes a gladiator. He wins his fight, but in vain; his wife and child die.Actors
Preston Foster
(Marcus)
Alan Hale
(Burbix)
Basil Rathbone
(Pontius Pilate)
David Jack Holt
(Flavius as a Boy)
Dorothy Wilson
(Clodia)
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