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1963

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Starring	Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown
Director	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance

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Cleopatra

This epic, spectacular love story of Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Marc Antony has dazzled audiences with its elaborate sets, daring costumes, and thrilling sea battle since its release, but these can't compare with Elizabeth Taylor as the mesmerizing Cleopatra, struggling to save her Egyptian empire. When this film was released, it was known as much for its opulent filmmaking as it was for its huge budget overruns--it took two years to film because of Taylor's various ailments and a major script rewrite by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, moving the shooting studio from England to Italy, and replacing the original director and the actors to play the Roman leaders--as well as the very public and tempestuous offscreen affair between costars Taylor and Richard Burton, who duplicated their romance on the silver screen as the doomed Cleopatra and her true love, Marc Antony. Despite all the hubbub surrounding the film, audiences realised that its spectacular story could not be denied, and it has remained a classic ever since. The triple-star power of Taylor, Burton, and Rex Harrison (playing Julius Caesar) radiates throughout this lengthy production, and Mankiewicz, a consummate magician at depicting the shadings of human emotion, directed this threesome in one of the most famous and gloriously powerful love triangles ever to be captured on film.

Starring	Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Richard O'Sullivan, George Cole, Andrew Keir, Martin Landau
Director	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 4 hrs 8 mins Blu-ray: 4 hrs 8 mins
Certificate
Collections	100 Swords and Sandals Films
Genres	Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Released	Production year: 1963 To Rent: DVD: 15 Apr 2002 Blu-ray: Unavailable for rental Blu-ray: 30 Jan 2012

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- A mess, as you might expect from the disastrous series of stoppages and personnel changes that dogged production.... read more on Time Out
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  spectacular!
  
  Yes this film is 4 hours and 20 mins long but what a film! its important to remember that this was made pre-everything CGI so you can really appreciate the time... read more »
  
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  An epic to end all epics
  
  They certainly did this big back then with hundreds and hundreds of extras in lavish battle scenes, processions, pageants etc. Hard to imagine that this was all... read more »
  
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  Hollywood extravagance at it's outrageous best
  
  First up, don't get disc 3. It's just bonus stuff. All the film is on discs 1 and 2 (although you don't know that until the discs are in the player... read more »
  
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  Nothing quite like it
  
  Some of this notorious debacle is quite engrossing - the extraordinary sets and costumes, the occasional semi-literate line or two, superb photography and one ... read more »
  
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Fox shoots down Taylor role reports
- WENN Newsdesk
- 26 Jan 2012
Actress Megan Fox has dismissed reports linking her to the starring role in an upcoming movie about Dame Elizabeth Taylor. The Transformers star was named as a frontrunner to play the Cleopatra icon in Lifetime network's forthcoming TV biopic Liz & Dick, about Taylor's love affair with Richard Burton. Fox was said to be in direct competition with Lindsay Lohan for the coveted part, but the brunette beauty insists she has nothing to do with the project. In a post on her official Facebook.com... Read more
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