Last night I watched much of TCM's 1945 Caesar and Cleopatra with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh. It also had Michael Renne and Stewart Granger in it. It was kind of a bizarre period piece. The sets were relatively sparse like those of the Silver Chalice with Paul Newman. It was almost like a Shakespeare movie. The leads were superb, but the dialogue was certainly not what you'd expect; much of it was lighthearted. There was no drama to it and I felt like the leads were privy to an inside joke.