Julius Caesar

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 7, 2006
  • Originally Released: 1953
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1953 - Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (b&w): Cedric Gibbons & Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 5,241
...Well acted and accessible....[Calhern] projects a lot of weary sophistication as Caesar...
USA Today
Dec 22, 1989
Over Caesar's corpse Brando begins to mix grief, rage, cunning, and ferocity; his reading of the funeral oration is so quakingly angry you understand why it would rouse the rabble. Full Review
New Yorker
Jan 18, 2016
Rating: 80/100 -- Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz manages to showcase the Bard's dialogue in a film that also has the visual appeal of Oscar-winning art direction. Full Review
Cinemania
Dec 26, 2014
Joseph L. Mankiewicz's impressive version of the play has a cast that only the MGM of that time could bring together...
Wall Street Journal
Feb 21, 2013
The results proved that Brando could handle poetic dialogue with the best of them...
Entertainment Weekly
Jul 16, 2004
Unimaginative but intelligent. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jul 9, 2008
Brando became a legend in gritty Elia Kazan productions, but it was his naturalistic approach in nonrealistic Mankiewicz fare like this and 1955's Guys and Dolls that helped transform all acting. Full Review
Brooklyn Magazine
Nov 7, 2014

Product Description:

William Shakespeare's multifaceted dialogue, layered upon complex human motivations, gives actors a chance to sink or shine, and in this film adaptation of JULIUS CAESAR, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, and James Mason prove themselves well up to the task, creating one of the most watchable versions of the tragic play. Warnings for Caesar to beware the Ides of March heighten a tension already made urgent by Cassius's exhortations to his fellow senators to assassinate Caesar before he gains more power. Controlled camera shots maintain the vintage stagelike feel of many scenes, reminding the viewer of JULIUS CAESAR's prestigious history, while characters flowing from one scene to the next break the play out of its past and into the more dynamic world as only the film drama can. The Oscar-nominated Brando's (as Marc Antony) powerful "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech is the centerpiece of this masterwork, throbbing with pain, indignation, and secret intentions. This adaptation of the monumental play will reassure viewers that Shakespeare can be brought to marvelous, vibrant justice on the screen; it garnered an Academy Award
nomination for Best Picture.

Description by Warner Home Video:

Julius Caesar
Film adaptation of Shakespeare's play chronicling the aftermath of Caesar's assassination at the hands of Marc Anthony, Cassius and Brutus.

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