Caesar and Cleopatra

United Kingdom

1945

128 Min

Color

1.33:1

English

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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DP Jack Cardiff, Jack Hildyard, Robert Krasker, Freddie Young

CAST Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Francis L. Sullivan, Basil Sydney, Flora Robson, Cecil Parker, Anthony Harvey, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Rennie, Esme Percy, Raymond Lovell, Anthony Eustrel, Robert Adams, Stanley Holloway, Leo Genn, Felix Aylmer, Jean Simmons

PROD DES John Bryan, Oliver Messel

Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains pop off the screen in vivid Technicolor in Gabriel Pascal’s adaptation of Shaw’s 1901 play about love and politics in ancient Rome and Egypt. At the time the most expensive British film ever produced (complete with real imported Egyptian sand), Caesar and Cleopatra is a lavish epic, featuring a screenplay adapted by Shaw himself and mesmerizing performances by its two stars. —The Criterion Collection

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AKFilmFan

4May13

Theatrical and extravagant drama with a flimsy performance by Vivian Leigh who comes across as a naive English schoolgirl than unconvincingly switching into her signature acting. The only reason to see this film is Shaw's screenplay and the reliable Claude Rains.