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Julius Caesar (1953) More at IMDbPro »

• Miscellaneous: Cassius offers Brutus his dagger to kill him, but the blade of his dagger falls off as he pulls it out of the sheath. Cassius offers the hilt of the dagger to Brutus, with the (missing) blade hidden behind his forearm.
  
  
• Anachronisms: A well-known bust of the Emperor Hadrian is prominently seen during the early dialog between Cassius and Brutus and, later, at Brutus' villa (both Cassius and Portia actually touch them). Hadrian wasn't Emperor for more than 120 years after the time in which the film takes place.
  
  
• Continuity: In the beginning of the film, when Flavius is talking to workers, we see Marullus near the wall behind, with a fat man a little way on his right side. The next shot shows the fat man partly behind Marullus.
  
  

• Continuity: When the soothsayer walks in the middle of the crowd to the right of the screen, we see from above when he is passing by Brutus. In the next shot he is walking towards the camera and Brutus, now behind him, grabs his arm to turn him.
  
  
• Continuity: When Caesar is in the top of the stairs talking to Cassius, Brutus and others, just before he is murdered, the people behind him change between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Marc Antony's left hand changes between shots when people from the crowd ask him to read Caesar's testament.
  
  
• Continuity: Inside Brutus' tent, the shield on the wall changes its position and disappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Still inside the Brutus' tent, the black jar on the table changes its place repeatedly between shots.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Near the beginning of the movie, a person in the crowd is wearing eyeglasses. He walks right by Caesar.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Antony is giving his speech to the citizens after Caeser's death, you can see the reflection of two stage lights on a bald man's head.
  
  
• Anachronisms: A stylized chess set can be seen in the home of Caesar and Calpurnia. The earliest precursor of chess did not develop until 550 A.D. in the Punjab.
  
  

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