Cleopatra (1963)

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Written by Sidney Buchman, Carlo Mario Franzero

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Running Time: 120 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1963

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: UK/USA/Switzerland

Filmed in Colour

The legend of Hollywood, Cleopatra made in 1963, featured more drama off-screen than it did on. With a massively over-budget production (from $2m to $44m), Liz Taylor almost dying during filming, the romance between Taylor and Burton (which ruined both their marriages and reached from the Vatican to US Congress), bankrupting 20th Century Fox and led to some involved never working in Hollywood again.

The premise of the film is a love triangle between the Egyptian queen Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor), Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) and Marc Antony (Richard Burton). It is essentially told in two parts; the first being the one to watch in that it traces Cleopatra's dealings with Caesar which ultimately lead to his downfall; the second having no real story but tells of Cleopatra's return to Rome with a monumental procession that is one of the most grandiose pieces of filmmaking produced (there were no computer generated extras in those days).

Cast

Elizabeth TaylorCleopatra
Image for Richard BurtonRichard BurtonMarc Antony
Rex HarrisonJulius Caesar
Pamela BrownHigh Priestess
Image for George ColeGeorge ColeFlavius
Hume CronynSosigenes
Martin LandauRufio
Roddy McDowallCaesar Augustus
Cesare DanovaApollodorus
Kenneth HaighBrutus
Andrew KeirAgrippa
Robert KellardGermanicus
Francesca AnnisEiras
Grégoire AslanPothinus
Martin BensonRamos

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