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Antony and Cleopatra (1972)

Director: Charlton Heston

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Shakespeare's play directed with hopeless stodginess, contriving to damp down all the fires (romantic, poetic, histrionic) to a sort of shabby naturalism, and very nearly irretrievably sunk by Hildegard Neil's petulant Cleopatra, a suburban schoolmarm having a fling on the Nile. On the credit side, the verse is very capably and clearly spoken; Heston gives an intelligently sotto voce reading of Antony as an old lion moth-eaten at the edges but still with a few roars left in him; and there are excellent performances from Porter (Enobarbus) and Castle (Octavius).

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Director: Charlton Heston

Producer: Peter Snell

Cast: Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, John Castle, Fernando Rey, Freddie Jones, Juan Luis Galiardo, Carmen Sevilla full cast

Duration: 160 mins


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