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The movie depicts historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra as Cleopatra tries to manipulate both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony in her ill-fated attempt to save the Egyptian empire.
1 May 1920, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
15 April 1933, Rome, Lazio, Italy
February 22, 1924 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
14 May 1945, Kensington, London, England, UK
14 December 1908, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, UK
August 4, 1943 in Wolverhampton, England, UK
21 October 1936, Oregon City, Oregon, USA
1 March 1926, Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
1928
29 September 1924, London, England, UK
5 March 1908, Huyton, Lancashire, England, UK [now Huyton, Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK]
24 June 1939, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
8 July 1917, London, England, UK
August 20, 1958 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
February 16, 1928 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA
13 September 1909, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
10 September 1927, Islington, London, England, UK
1 March 1923, Isoko, Tanganyika [now Tanzania]
10 April 1916, Horden, Durham, England, UK
5 October 1905, Bronxville, New York, USA
27 November 1940, Edmonton, London, England, UK
2 August 1924, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
June 22, 1942 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
3 January 1935, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England, UK
27 February 1937, Dallas, Texas, USA
27 September 1952, Pasadena, California, USA
1925, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
7 May 1938, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
April 4, 1942 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
July1939, Trinidad and Tobago
March 11, 2016
...a tale of two men being manipulated, and possibly loved, by a powerful and conflicted woman.May 05, 2008
[A] general muddle.September 05, 2007
Cleopatra is not only a supercolossal eye-filler (the unprecedented budget shows in the physical opulence throughout), but it is also a remarkably literate cinematic recreation of an historic epoch.October 06, 2014
Taylor inhabits the role with a focussed but uninhibited imperiousness, as when she turns Cleopatra's entrance into Rome, aboard a giant rolling sphinx, into the ultimate red-carpet photo op.February 09, 2006
Harrison, doing his waspish don act as Caesar, alone rises above mediocrity.February 15, 2014
A lumbering monstrosity of a movie with all manner of preposterous hairstyles and improbable fashions. Worth seeing -- once anyway -- at least as wayward legend.August 19, 2013
Though it owes as much to Shakespeare's interpretation and to Roman propaganda as to the historical record, this interpretation of the great queen's life succeeds in conveying something of the intelligence and force of personality her opponents feared.August 02, 2014
The film has a spectacular variety of liabilities (and, to be fair, strengths as well), but the most visible and crushing is that's an utter dud as a star vehicle.November 25, 2014
Four-hour visual stunner requires patience, maturity.July 09, 2013
It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, for good and ill.March 30, 2016
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.