Cleopatra (1963)

Réalisateur:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writers:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay) and
Ranald MacDougall (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

31 juillet 1963 (UK)

Genre:

Biographie | Drame | History | Romance

Accroche:

The motion picture the world has been waiting for!

Plot:

Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.

Plot Keywords:

Peep Hole | Pharaoh | One Word Title | Food Taster | Ptolemaic Dynasty

Awards:

Won 4 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 11 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

Too much negativity, not enough praise!

Ensemble

Elizabeth Taylor	...	Cleopatra
Richard Burton	...	Antony
Rex Harrison	...	Caesar
Pamela Brown	...	High Priestess
George Cole	...	Flavius
Hume Cronyn	...	Sosigenes
Cesare Danova	...	Apollodorus
Kenneth Haigh	...	Brutus
Andrew Keir	...	Agrippa
Martin Landau	...	Rufio
Roddy McDowall	...	Octavian - Caesar Augustus
Robert Stephens	...	Germanicus
Francesca Annis	...	Eiras, Cleopatra's handmaiden
Grégoire Aslan	...	Pothinus (as Gregoire Aslan)
Martin Benson	...	Ramos

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Cléopâtre (France) [fr]

Durée:

192 min | Argentina:233 min | 243 min (roadshow version) | Germany:233 min (TV version) | Sweden:232 min | USA:320 min (director's cut)

Pays:

UK | USA | Switzerland

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Son:

4-Track Stereo (35 mm prints) | Stereo (Westrex Recording System) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Classification:

USA:Unrated (video rating) | Brazil:Livre | Argentina:Atp | Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Peru:PT | Canada:G (video rating) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Iceland:L | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | USA:Approved (certificate #19756) (original rating) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:G (1971 re-release) | West Germany:12

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Almería, Andalucía, Spain

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Anecdotes:

Susan Hayward was the first choice to play Cleopatra.

Goofs:

Continuity: During Cleopatra's big parade as she enters Rome there are tire tracks on the dirt road

Guillemet:

Cleopatra: You come before me as a suppliant.
Antony: If you choose to regard me as such.
Cleopatra: You will therefore assume the position of a suppliant before this throne. You will kneel.
Antony: I will *what*?
Cleopatra: On-your-knees!
Antony: You dare ask the Proconsul of the Roman Empire?
Cleopatra: I *asked* it of Julius Caesar. I *demand* it of you!

Connexions De Film:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Buck Henry/The Grateful Dead (#4.5)" (1978)

Too much negativity, not enough praise!

Regarded as the biggest flop (at least until "Ishtar") in motion picture history, "Cleopatra" has been given the short end of the stick since it first premiered in 1963 but it still is a great film. True, it did plague 20th Century Fox to the point of near bankruptcy (until "The Sound of Music" saved it in 1965) and Elizabeth Taylor's health overshadowed the film schedule but there are more good things about the film than there are bad, the backlashing of the film has just blown itself all out of proportion. Richard Burton and Elizabeth's much-publicized offscreen love affair grew to such a feverishly fiery degree that it made their onscreen relationship as Antony and Cleopatra all the more genuine. Rex Harrison as Caesar is first-rate as well and yet he was the only one out of the entire cast that received an Oscar nomination (Richard Burton was one who should have been in the running as well... his performance is equal to his earlier work in "The Robe" and later in "Becket" and "Anne of the Thousand Days"). Miss Taylor is very commanding in the role of her career and as a result few remember Claudette Colbert's earlier turn as Egypt's most memorable ruler in Cecil B. De Mille's 1934 version. The one point I want to make is that the film should have gotten more praise than it did... like "The Wizard of Oz", "Fantasia" and "It's a Wonderful Life" it seems to get more appreciation by it's second generation than it did it's first.