The Last Days of Pompeii (miniseries)
| The Last Days of Pompeii | |
|---|---|
| Based on | novel of the same name by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
| Written by | Carmen Culver |
| Directed by | Peter R. Hunt |
| Starring | Ned Beatty Brian Blessed Ernest Borgnine Olivia Hussey |
| Music by | Trevor Jones |
| Country of origin | Italy United Kingdom United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | David Gerber |
| Producers | William Hill Richard Irving |
| Cinematography | Jack Cardiff |
| Editors | Michael Ellis Richard Marden |
| Running time | 310 minutes |
| Production companies | RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana David Gerber Productions Centerpoint Columbia Pictures Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | May 6 – May 8, 1984 |
The Last Days of Pompeii is an Italian-American 1984 television miniseries filmed at Pinewood Studios and Italy. It was aired on ABC-TV and Rai, adapting the 1834 novel of the same name by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It was the second English-language adaptation of the book for film or television (previously adapted mainly in Italian; the 1935 RKO film was unrelated to the novel and the 1900 adaptation by Walter R. Booth, while the first cinematic adaptation in English was a short film).