The Last Days of Pompeii

Overview

In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.

Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack

Top cast

Preston Foster

Marcus

Alan Hale

Burbix

Basil Rathbone

Pontius Pilate

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John Wood

Adult Flavius

Louis Calhern

Prefect Allus Martius

David Holt

Flavius as a Boy

Dorothy Wilson

Clodia

Wyrley Birch

Leaster

Frank Conroy

Gaius Tanno (uncredited)

William V. Mong

Cleon the Slave Dealer (uncredited)

Murray Kinnell

Simon (uncredited)

Henry Kolker

Warder (uncredited)

Edward Van Sloan

Calvus (uncredited)

Zeffie Tilbury

The Wise Woman (uncredited)

John Davidson

Phoebus (uncredited)

Ward Bond

Murmex of Carthage, a Gladiator (uncredited)

Edwin Maxwell

The Augur, a Pompeii Official (uncredited)

Warner Richmond

Captain of the Guard (uncredited)

Jim Thorpe

Spectator Tossing Coins (uncredited)

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Buster Wiles

Gladiator (uncredited)

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