Originally Posted by olivant
Irish, that is a great movie which I have viewed several times. The cast is all-star. Stephen Boyd has that granite face of a Real Roman and Alec Guiness the moxie of an Emperor. Of course, Sophia! What can I say?


I'd give it another go for sure.

Today, I wasn't overly impressed by Cecil B. DeMille's 1934 CLEOPATRA. In fact, I was somewhat disappointed. Early on I wasn't emotionally invested with the story too much, with Cleopatra's love going from Caesar to Marc Antony. In addition, Claudette Colbert didn't mesmerize me as much as I thought she would as Cleopatra. She was good but nothing memorable. Finally, the characters seemed to play the roles too cooly. One of the knocks I have about some films made during this time period as the actors/actresses are theatrically trained and it shows when staring in films rather than the stage (and doesn't come off as well IMO). I'm anticipating the Elizabeth Taylor version to be much better tomorrow.