Two Britonsâinventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighterâare captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
Marc Antony
Sid James
Caeser
Kenneth Williams
Horsa
Jim Dale
Cleopatra
Amanda Barrie
Calpurnia
Joan Sims
Hengist Pod
Kenneth Connor
Seneca
Charles Hawtrey
Gloria
Julie Stevens
Brutus
Brian Oulton
Archimedes
Michael Ward
Agrippa
Francis de Wolff
Segeant-Major
Victor Maddern
Senna Pod
Sheila Hancock
Soothsayer
Jon Pertwee
Marcus
Gertan Klauber
Spencius
Warren Mitchell
Bilius
David Davenport
Virginia
Tanya Binning
Sosages
Tom Clegg
Galley Master
Peter Gilmore
Ancient Briton
Michael Nightingale
Small Messenger
Ian Wilson
Seth
Peter Jesson
Hessian Driver
Brian Rawlinson
Narrator (voice)
E. V. H. Emmett
Pretty Bidder (uncredited)
Wanda Ventham
Guard at Caesar's Palace (uncredited)
Mark Hardy
Guard (uncredited)
Percy Herbert
Heckler (uncredited)
Norman Mitchell
Citizen (uncredited)
Jill Goldston