Fresh
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.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Cleopatra
The motion picture the world has been waiting for!
1963 · 4h 11m · G
Drama, History, Romance
Directed by
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
,
Rouben Mamoulian
,
Darryl F. Zanuck
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Cleopatra
Overview
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Director and cast
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director
- Rouben Mamoulian Director
- Darryl F. Zanuck Director
- Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra
- Richard Burton as Marcus Antonius
- Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar
- Pamela Brown as High Priestess
- George Cole as Flavius
- Hume Cronyn as Sosigenes
- Cesare Danova as Apollodorus
- Kenneth Haigh as Brutus
- Andrew Keir as Agrippa
- Martin Landau as Rufio
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, for good and ill.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Rotten
[A] general muddle.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic epoch.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Harrison, doing his waspish don act as Caesar, alone rises above mediocrity.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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