Top billed cast

1. 

   Elizabeth Taylor

   Cleopatra

2. 

   Richard Burton

   Marcus Antonius

3. 

   Rex Harrison

   Julius Caesar

4. 

   Pamela Brown

   High Priestess

5. 

   George Cole

   Flavius

6. 

   Hume Cronyn

   Sosigenes

7. 

   Cesare Danova

   Apollodorus

8. 

   Kenneth Haigh

   Brutus

9. 

   Andrew Keir

   Agrippa

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2014-09-26

On Your Knees!

On your knees! It's something that Cleopatra her self shouts at a stunned Mark Antony, but it could quite literally have been shouted by many in Hollywood at 20th Century Fox as their gargantuan epic threatened to sink them. The trials and tribulations surrounding the film are stuff of legend, all of which makes for a film itself, but I will not go over old ground, there's a couple of great documentaries available out there and they are required viewing. They also help to explain somewhat why Cleopatra is not the genre defining classic many hoped it would be. Truth is is that...read the rest

Recommendations

1. Cleopatra61%
2. Land of the Pharaohs63%
3. Agora69%
4. David and Bathsheba58%
5. The Book of Daniel70%
6. The Bible: In the Beginning...73%
7. Mary62%
8. The River72%
9. Barabbas69%
10. Meet Joe Black73%
11. Alexander the Great60%
12. I Still Believe75%
13. Elizabeth: The Golden Age67%
14. Only Lovers Left Alive72%
15. Purple Hearts80%
16. Ruth & Boaz75%
17. One Night with the King67%
18. The Young Victoria71%
19. Winter's Tale62%
20. An Autumn Romance71%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$36,115,000.00

Revenue
$57,779,280.00

Keywords

• egypt
• snake
• greece
• nile
• cleopatra
• historical figure
• ancient rome
• ancient egypt
• library of alexandria
• alexandria egypt
• antiquity
• 1st century bc