Occasionally, I will look at websites which list things – all the way from bad plastic surgery to deadly reptiles of Australia. Believe me, there is a lot of stuff that falls in the middle and stuff that hangs off both sides. Today, one thing led to another and I found myself  looking at the some of the biggest losers in epic films.

The Fall of the Roman Empire – not to be confused with Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which of course one reads and does not watch –  caught my attention. As you can see, if you clicked on the link, it is considered a good film and has actors the caliber of Alec Guinness, who had a famous role in a movie about another empire.

Now, of course, I have decided I have to see this film, and so the search will begin. Oh, how I wish I could walk into the Beavercreek, Ohio GoodWill (across from City Barbecue) and find a VHS copy. That store has a lot of historical films on the shelves, probably because it is close to a university.

I haven’t started an Internet search; maybe it won’t be difficult at all. Actually, it would seem likely I have already seen it since it was made in 1964, right in the middle of my high school years – when students still took Latin and dressed up in togas on Latin Day. But I don’t remember. I do remember taking part in a vocabulary contest at one Latin Day and watching Quo Vadis at another. (Robert Taylor, as in Waterloo Bridge – as if everyone were as old as I. Heavens, I am giggling at myself.