Cleopatra

Set in the year 48 B.C., just after the death of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra concerns the Egyptian queen and her romance with Mark Antony. The film eventually ballooned out to over four hours and set a record for its $60 million budget., Epic drama of the young Queen of Egypt, the highest grossing film of its year but also the most expensive film made., Having been driven out of the palace by her jealous brother, Cleopatra regains her title with the help of the visiting Roman emperor, Julius Caesar. Determined to unite Egypt and Rome into a great empire, she seduces him and bears his child. When Caesar is murdered, she turns her attentions to his general, Marc Antony. All is going according to plan until Caesar’s successor, Octavian, wages war on the two of them and the stability of the empire is thrown into doubt., Historical epic charting the 18 years leading up to the formation of the Roman Empire, from Cleopatra’s first meeting with Julius Caesar to her death alongside Mark Anthony., Monumentally epic in every sense of the word, Joseph L Mankiewicz’s expensive and controversial remake of the DeMille 1934 original charts the 18 years leading up to the formation of the Roman Empire, from Cleopatra’s first meeting with Julius Caesar to her (rather drawn out) death alongside Mark Anthony., Oscar-winning epic of the legendary Queen of the Nile and her two great loves, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Caesar arrives in Egypt in 48 BC to settle the dispute between Ptolemy and his sister, Cleopatra, who is denied her rightful power. Caesar reinstates Cleopatra as sole ruler and returns with her in triumph to Rome. But her passionate affair with Mark Antony leads to scandal, deadly political plots and tragedy., Epic about Egypt’s legendary queen and her liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony during the heyday of the Roman Empire., After Julius Caesar is betrayed and murdered before the Senate, Cleopatra must seduce the legendary Roman general Mark Antony in order to save her empire. Epic drama with Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton., Oscar-winning epic of the legendary Queen of the Nile and her two great loves, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Julius Caesar arrives in Egypt in 48 BC to settle the dispute between Ptolemy and his sister, Cleopatra, who is denied her rightful power. Caesar reinstates Cleopatra as sole ruler and returns with her in triumph to Rome. But her passionate affair with Mark Antony leads to scandal, deadly political plots, and tragedy., Still the most expensive film ever made and famous for bringing Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton together in what was to become one of the world’s most famous on-off-on relationships, Joseph L Mankiewicz’s film almost defines the word ‘epic’. Taylor plays Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, who uses both her political wiles and her body to first woo Julius Caesar then Marc Antony to protect and even expand her realm. As history tells us, she was to meet untimely end but it is in the sumptuous telling that the film is so successful, with sets more extravagant than seen before. Burton, Harrison and Taylor, none of whom were first choices all produced some of the best work of their careers and despite its epic length, it never flags., Epic about Egypt’s legendary queen and her liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony., Oscar-winning epic of the legendary Queen of the Nile and her two great loves, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Julius Caesar arrives in Egypt in 48BC to settle the dispute between Ptolemy and his sister, Cleopatra, who is denied her rightful power. Caesar reinstates Cleopatra as sole ruler and returns with her in triumph to Rome. But her passionate affair with Mark Antony leads to scandal, deadly political plots, and tragedy. Dir: Joseph L Mankiewicz.