Overview
A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"
Director and cast
- David Croft Director
- Frankie Howerd as Lurcio
- Mark Dignam as Ludicrus Sextus
- Elizabeth Larner as Ammonia
- Kerry Gardner as Nausius
- Jennifer Lonsdale as Erotica
- Jeanne Mockford as Senna the soothsayer
- John Cater as Pollux
- Leon Greene as Prodigius
- Olwen Griffiths as Hernia
- Cyril Appleton as Cyril Appleton
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