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Release Date:
31 July 1963 (UK)
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Tagline:
The motion picture the world has been waiting for!
Plot:
Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. full summary | add synopsis
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Cleopatra
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Egypt
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Roman Empire
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Epic
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Marc Antony
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Awards:
Won 4 Oscars.
Another 3 wins
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11 nominations
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(31 articles)
Liz Taylor: Mj Film Is Greatest Movie Ever Made!
(From TMZ. 26 October 2009, 4:45 PM, PDT)
Jason Reitman On 'Ghostbusters 3,' Frightened Rabbit And Elizabeth Taylor In Today's Twitter-Wood
(From MTV Movies Blog. 9 October 2009, 3:00 PM, PDT)
(From TMZ. 26 October 2009, 4:45 PM, PDT)
Jason Reitman On 'Ghostbusters 3,' Frightened Rabbit And Elizabeth Taylor In Today's Twitter-Wood
(From MTV Movies Blog. 9 October 2009, 3:00 PM, PDT)
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Mutilated potential classic
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Elizabeth Taylor | ... | Cleopatra |
 | Richard Burton | ... | Mark Antony |
 | Rex Harrison | ... | Julius Caesar |
 | Pamela Brown | ... | High Priestess |
| George Cole | ... | Flavius |
 | Hume Cronyn | ... | Sosigenes |
| Cesare Danova | ... | Apollodorus |
| Kenneth Haigh | ... | Brutus |
| Andrew Keir | ... | Agrippa |
 | Martin Landau | ... | Rufio |
 | Roddy McDowall | ... | Octavian - Caesar Augustus |
| Robert Stephens | ... | Germanicus |
| Francesca Annis | ... | Eiras, Cleopatra's handmaiden |
| Grégoire Aslan | ... | Pothinus (as Gregoire Aslan) |
| Martin Benson | ... | Ramos |
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Runtime:
192 min | Germany:233 min (TV version) | Sweden:232 min | USA:320 min (director's cut) | 243 min (roadshow version) | Argentina:233 min
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
4-Track Stereo (35 mm prints) |
Stereo (Westrex Recording System) |
DTS 70 mm (70mm re-release)
Certification:
USA:Unrated (video rating) |
Iceland:L |
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba) |
Argentina:Atp |
Peru:PT |
USA:Approved (certificate #19756) (original rating) |
Canada:G (video rating) |
Brazil:Livre |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Spain:18 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG |
USA:G (1971 re-release) |
West Germany:12
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During Cleopatra's entry into Rome, the shots of Cleopatra's barge and the parade that precedes it were filmed several months apart, so that the light would be hitting Cleopatra directly.
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Anachronisms: Cleopatra refers to Octavian as "Octavius Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus." The senate also refer to him as "the August." However, Gaius Octavius wasn't given the name "Augustus" or made emperor until 27 BC, three years after Cleopatra's death.
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Referenced in The Saga of 'The Beastmaster' (2005) (V)
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| Boring music score | mr6708 |
| God this thing is awful | Boats_Gilhooley |
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Fritz Lang's Metropolis is rightly regarded as a classic, but many reviews make note of the 'illogical' story and bad character plotting. Characters come and go without rhyme or reason, and the plot makes no sense, they say. Well, yes, but that's not Fritiz's fault, nor the movie's; Metropolis makes little sense because 55 minutes of the film was hacked out and destroyed, never to be seen again, by the US distributors. Of course it's gonna be a dog's dinner with an hour missing, ya clods!!
The same is true of Cleopatra, and this is basically the only reason the film fell flat on its' 1963 release. It was originally intended to release Cleopatra as two three hour movies, the first dealing with Cleo's relationship with Caesar, the second her affairs with Marc Antony. Fox said no to this idea, and demanded a single four hour film instead. This decision is like taking Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings Trilogy and removing an hour from each film wherever an hours' worth can be removed...a recipe for incoherence and total disaster.
So, with two hours of footage gone, major characters are reduced to glorified walk-ons, vital plot points and motivations are lost, and the story loses what LOTR has...length with the proper pacing. People will sit and watch 4 hours of Return Of The King because it flows properly. People will not sit and watch 4 hours of stitched together rough cuts...that's what Cleopatra is, even in the DVD roadshow edition...because what we have is something that is too bitty and haphzard to sustain interest.
But there is still glory in Cleo....Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau and Rex Harrison all act their socks off, the sea battle is kick ass, and Liz Taylor looks pretty scrummy in Egyptian softcore porn clothes. And only a Gen Xer like me could love that hideously pompous overblown dialogue.
Great film! For what it is. It just should have been TWO films, that's all. Real eyepopping trippy spectacle, done in a 'damn the money, full speed ahead' way that just doesn't happen any more. Like Casino Royale, Cleo is a wonderful disaster.