Age of Treason

TV Movie
1993
PG
1h 33m

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Bryan Brown, Matthias Hues, and Sophie Okonedo in Age of Treason (1993)

Marcus Didius Falco must solve a murder set in Ancient Rome.Marcus Didius Falco must solve a murder set in Ancient Rome.Marcus Didius Falco must solve a murder set in Ancient Rome.

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Trivia
The film is based on the book 'The Silver Pigs', the first of Lindsey Davis's series of novels about Ancient Roman 'Informer' (private detective) Marcus Didius Falco. However, it bears little relation to the book, jettisoning most of the plot and characters.

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The movie starts in the Colosseum in Rome, with the "new Emperor" Vespasian watching the games. In reality it was Vespasian who built the Colosseum, and it wasn't completed until over a decade into his reign.

I'm a huge fan of Lindsey Davis' mystery series set in First Century Rome, and was really disappointed by this filmic conflation of several of her early Marcus Didius Falco novels. The primary flaw, which spoils anything good in the movie (and there IS some good stuff here) is the woeful miscasting of Bryan Brown as Falco. I've loved Brown in several other movies, but he isn't the guy for this role. Most especially distressing is his lower-class Aussie accent, which is completely wrong for Falco -- he could never have won the heart of a Senator's daughter talking like this!

It's really a shame, because the Falco series deserves a treatment like what the BBC provided for "I, Claudius." It's that good.