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The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) is a feature film (sound, B&W, 96m), directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack.

~ Screenplay by Ruth Rose, based on a story by James Ashmore Creelman and Melville Baker, after The Last Days of Pompeii (1834 Lytton), novel.

~ Film Music by Roy Webb.

Abstract

Almost totally throws the original novel overboard, to concentrate instead on a moral tale of an honest, hard-working blacksmith who becomes embittered after the death of his wife and child and becomes an arena gladiator interested only in wealth. The adoption of a small boy and the meeting with Jesus will change his life until the climatic finale with the eruption of Mount Vesuvio. Starring Preston Foster and Basil Rathbone. By the same team that created King Kong (1933).

Cast

• Basil Rathbone = Pontius Pilate

Production

Produced and released in the United States (18 October 1935).

Distributed internationally. Also known as:

• Els últims dies de Pompeia <Catalan>
• Pompejis sidste Dage <Danish>
• Pompejin viimeiset päivät <Finnish>
• Die letzten Tage von Pompeji / Der Untergang von Pompeji <German>
• Ai Teleftaiai imerai tis Pompiias <Greek>
• Pompei végnapjai <Hungarian>
• Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei <Italian>
• Os Últimos Dias de Pompeia <Portuguese>
• Los últimos días de Pompeya <Spanish>
• The Last Days of Pompeii <Swedish>
• Pompeyin son günleri <Turkish>

External links

• Wikipedia
• The Internet Movie Database