This certainly is gorgeous to look at, every detail of it as you elaborate as any of the biblical epics Hollywood was doing with extremely high budgets at the same time. As they recapped the family history, I couldn't help but laugh in recollection. This is a bit of a history lesson, mentioning everybody going back to the mother of the nation, Aggrapina's great grandmother, Livia. I couldn't tell if she was more upset over his putting snakes in her bed (for which she carries a mongoose around) or his choice of bed-mates. Alberto Sordi is the frivolous Nero, as mad as his uncle Caligula, cheery but irresponsible, and involved with the beguiling Pompea (Bridgette Bardot) much to his mother's displeasure. That's the part Swanson plays, and she's a sight to behold. Claudius foresaw the end of his family's reign and gladly ate the poisoned mushrooms fed to him by his wife, as evil as any of the women who proceeded her.

If you recall, in the television adaption of Robert Graves' classic novel, Claudius was poisoned by his evil wife, Aggrapina and her son, Nero.

The Claudians, seriously documented in the brilliant BBC miniseries 'I Claudius' gets a follow-up with this Italian farce. Reviewed by mark.waltz 5 / 10 Carry on, Claudians, Italian Style.ĭon't expect to hear the voice of the legendary Gloria Swanson in this farcical view of the last of the original Roman empire dynasty.

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