Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Country: GB
Technical: col 135m
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson
Synopsis:
As Caesar fights it out with Pompey and Crassus for mastery of the Mediterranean, he takes time out to teach the young queen of Egypt how to retain mastery over her subjects.
Review:
George Bernard Shaw's play is given lavish treatment by the Hungarian Pascal, who seemed to make it his life's work to bring the great man's work to the screen. This one was allegedly nine months in production and, in sumptuous Technicolor, cost a small fortune. The results, however, are generally positive, with Rains and Leigh sparring well together and the trenchant wit of the thing no doubt providing Joe Mankiewicz with a blueprint for similar parts of his later screenplay for Cleopatra.
Country: GB
Technical: col 135m
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson
Synopsis:
As Caesar fights it out with Pompey and Crassus for mastery of the Mediterranean, he takes time out to teach the young queen of Egypt how to retain mastery over her subjects.
Review:
George Bernard Shaw's play is given lavish treatment by the Hungarian Pascal, who seemed to make it his life's work to bring the great man's work to the screen. This one was allegedly nine months in production and, in sumptuous Technicolor, cost a small fortune. The results, however, are generally positive, with Rains and Leigh sparring well together and the trenchant wit of the thing no doubt providing Joe Mankiewicz with a blueprint for similar parts of his later screenplay for Cleopatra.
Country: GB
Technical: col 135m
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Cast: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson
Synopsis:
As Caesar fights it out with Pompey and Crassus for mastery of the Mediterranean, he takes time out to teach the young queen of Egypt how to retain mastery over her subjects.
Review:
George Bernard Shaw's play is given lavish treatment by the Hungarian Pascal, who seemed to make it his life's work to bring the great man's work to the screen. This one was allegedly nine months in production and, in sumptuous Technicolor, cost a small fortune. The results, however, are generally positive, with Rains and Leigh sparring well together and the trenchant wit of the thing no doubt providing Joe Mankiewicz with a blueprint for similar parts of his later screenplay for Cleopatra.