Cleopatra

Name: Cleopatra
Released: 1963-6-12
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole

Cleopatra

G
4h 11m
1963

56%

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In the wake of Julius Caesar's death, the Egyptian queen embarks on a tragic love affair with influential Roman Marc Antony in this big-budget historical drama.

Director:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Producer:

Walter Wanger

Writer:

Joseph Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman

Cast:

Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Roddy McDowall, Robert Stephens

EXTRAS

Locked video

COMMENTARY WITH CHRIS MANKIEWICZ, TOM MANKIEWICZ, MARTIN LANDAU AND JACK BRODSKY

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

56%

Critics Consensus: Cleopatra is a lush, ostentatious, endlessly eye-popping epic that sags collapses from a (and how could it not?) four-hour runtime.

Reviews

Sunday Times (UK)

Dilys Powell

The difficulty for the performer of getting out from under the scenery, the sets, the costumes and the colour and making an impression not as a member of the cast but as an actor (or actress) is severe.

August 8, 2022

FULL REVIEW

New York Herald Tribune

Judith Crist

I must report that this film is at best a major disappointment, at worst an extravagant exercise in tedium.

Far from the sumptuous sets that reproduce antiquity with a certain authenticity, 'Cleopatra' is an epic spectacle to which I find nothing but an erratic and artificious result in its four hours and eleven minutes of length. [Full Review in Spanish]

As the sets seem to grow bigger and bigger, so progressively the players dwindle.

February 11, 2020

FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Free Press

Merl Edelman