Cleopatra (50th Anniversary) (2-DVD) G
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 4 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 28, 2013
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton | |
Performer: | Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Andrew Keir, Martin Landau, Robert Stephens, Francesca Annis, Martin Benson, Herbert Berghof, Grégoire Aslan & Richard O'Sullivan | |
Directed by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | |
Edited by | Dorothy Spencer | |
Screenwriting by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall & Sidney Buchman | |
Composition by | Alex North | |
Produced by | Walter Wanger | |
Director of Photography: | Leon Shamroy |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Cinematography: Leon Shamroy
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Costume Design (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1963 -
Best Special Visual Effects: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
A stately but sometimes mindboggling spectacle.
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Guardian
Rating: B --
It may not be as compelling and tightly edited as Ben-Hur, but Cleopatra is still a Hollywood epic that tells a grand story in a grand way. Save it for a night when the family feels like a four-hour spectacle.
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Family Home Theater
Rating: 3/5 --
It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, for good and ill.
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Time Out
3 stars out of 5 -- [A]s a monument to pre-CGI pageantry, it doesn’t get much bigger than this.
Total Film
Sad to say, however, the deep-revolving, witty Mankiewicz fails most where most he hoped to succeed. As drama and as cinema, Cleopatra is raddled with flaws. It lacks style both in image and in action.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Four-hour visual stunner requires patience, maturity.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 3/5 --
Melodramatic, and camp as Christmas, but nothing like the disaster its reputation suggests.
Little White Lies
Product Description:
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 realized 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.
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- Sales Rank: 122,119
- UPC: 024543864400
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