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Cleopatra

Play trailer 4:37 Poster for Cleopatra G Released Jun 12, 1963 4h 3m History Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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"Cleopatra" is a lengthy, sprawling, spectacular love story, helmed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, depicting Cleopatra's manipulation of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in her ill-fated attempt to save the Egyptian empire. This threesome in one of the most famous and gloriously powerful love triangles ever to be captured on film.
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Cleopatra is a lush, ostentatious, endlessly eye-popping epic that sags collapses from a (and how could it not?) four-hour runtime.

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Kate Muir The Times (UK) Cleopatra is a piece of overcooked lunacy. Jan 2, 2024 Full Review Penelope Houston Sight & Sound As the sets seem to grow bigger and bigger, so progressively the players dwindle. Feb 11, 2020 Full Review Richard Brody The New Yorker Taylor inhabits the role with a focussed but uninhibited imperiousness, as when she turns Cleopatra's entrance into Rome, aboard a giant rolling sphinx, into the ultimate red-carpet photo op. Oct 6, 2014 Full Review Penelope Gilliatt Observer (UK) The events have no pressure behind them: instead of erupting out of the upheavals of three powerfully exciting and self-willed personalities, they seem to be happening because the extras and the sets are there. Mar 6, 2024 Full Review Dilys Powell Sunday Times (UK) The difficulty for the performer of getting out from under the scenery, the sets, the costumes and the colour and making an impression not as a member of the cast but as an actor (or actress) is severe. Aug 8, 2022 Full Review Judith Crist New York Herald Tribune I must report that this film is at best a major disappointment, at worst an extravagant exercise in tedium. Aug 8, 2022 Full Review Read all reviews

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Walter H I saw this in a theater on its initial release. My date was a no show (sob) but I watched it all, with an intermission that was popular at the time for long movies. The supporting cast make the movie work. Taylor was OK but too old to play a 21 year-old Cleopatra with any credibility, while Burton did not convince me that Antony might've ruled the Roman Empire but for the nagging problem of Octavian. Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar and Roddy McDowell as Octavian make the movie work, as well as other good supporting cast members. It goes on and on but truly is an epic. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/08/25 Full Review Alexsander F Now that's Absolut Cinema, a memorable epic that can be compared to Virgil's great Aeneid. It's four hours that pass in four minutes, but I'm a bit biased since I'm a great enthusiast of Roman history, period films and epics, and this film is a real treat for lovers of history and the great Shakespearean tragedies. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/17/25 Full Review thiago s Filme bacaninha, o roteiro é mais ou menos, as cenas são bacaninhas, o elenco é mais ou menos, e alguns ajudam a melhorar o filme, a história é bacaninha, os personagens sao bacaninhas, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 05/12/25 Full Review rick r CLEO {E TAULOR} AND MARK ANTHONY {R BURTON} WERE BORING WITH THEIR DREARY SHACKSPEARIAN MONOLOGS. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 12/27/24 Full Review Andrew Y A very poor film…….. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 06/04/24 Full Review Lanfranco C It is really the last Hollywood kolossal, but it is too long and sometimes boring. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/10/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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Elizabeth Taylor

Cleopatra

Richard Burton

Marc Antony

Rex Harrison

Julius Caesar

Pamela Brown

High Priestess

George Cole

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Julius Caesar (REX HARRISON) kneels in front of Cleopatra (ELIZABETH TAYLOR) in CLEOPATRA. Julis Caesar (REX HARRISON) greets Cleopatra (ELIZABETH TAYLOR) making a grand entrance into Rome in CLEOPATRA. View more photos

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Synopsis "Cleopatra" is a lengthy, sprawling, spectacular love story, helmed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, depicting Cleopatra's manipulation of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in her ill-fated attempt to save the Egyptian empire. This threesome in one of the most famous and gloriously powerful love triangles ever to be captured on film.
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer
Walter Wanger
Screenwriter
Sidney Buchman, Carlo Mario Franzero, Ranald MacDougall, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Twentieth Century Fox
Rating
G
Genre
History, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 12, 1963, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 18, 2012
Runtime
4h 3m
Sound Mix
Stereo
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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