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Caesar and Cleopatra

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Caesar and Cleopatra
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2hrs 15min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1946
Director:
Gabriel Pascal
Starring:
Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger  ...more
Synopsis: George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar (Claude Rains) and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh). Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra are merely Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle cast back into ancient times with Caesar doting with admiration and burgeoning love upon Cleopatra and expostulating, "You have been growing up since the Sphinx introduced us the other night." The story is a simple one concerning Caesar instructing Cleopatra on how to ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
In its time, Caesar and Cleopatra was the most lavish British film ever produced and was both a financial and critical disappointment. Viewed today, the flaws are obvious, but its virtues are also more apparent. On the debit side, the film is wildly overproduced with all of the money spent on spectacle getting in the way of what at heart is a character study cum sociological tract. Author George Bernard ... Full Review
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Vivien Leigh
Cleopatra
Claude Rains
Julius Caesar
Stewart Granger
Apollodorus
Flora Robson
Ftatateeta
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Julius Caesar (1953) Cleopatra (1999)
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