Cleopatra (1963)

Cast:

Richard Burton,
Martin Landau,
Roddy McDowall,
Finlay Currie,
Rex Harrison,
Andrew Keir,
Elizabeth Taylor,
Martin Benson,
Hume Cronyn,
Marne Maitland,
Michael Hordern,
Cesare Danova,
Ben Wright,
Carroll O'Connor,
Desmond Llewelyn,
Douglas Wilmer,
Robert Stephens,
Grégoire Aslan,
Calvin Lockhart,
Jean Marsh,
John Doucette,
Richard O'Sullivan,
John Cairney,
John Hoyt,
George Cole,
Laurence Naismith,
Michael Gwynn,
Herbert Berghof,
Jack Taylor,
John Karlsen,
Francesca Annis,
Andrew Faulds,
Kenneth Haigh,
Isabel Cooley,
John Gayford,
Pamela Brown,
Sandra Scarnati,
Rosalba Grottesi,
John Alderton,
Boris Nacinovic,
Luigi Martocci,
Michela Roc,
Del Russel,
Gwen Watford,
Jacqui Chan,
Peter Forster,
Rupert John,
Kenneth Nash,
John Frederick,
Furio Meniconi,
Salvatore Billa,
Loris Loddi,
Paola Pitagora,
Mike Steen,
Jeremy Kemp,
Rod Dana,
John Pepper,
Violeta Montenegro,
Meri Welles,
John Alvar,
Marie Devereux,
Marina Berti

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Composer:

Alex North

description:

Cleopatra is a 1963 film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay was adapted by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz from a book by Carlo Maria Franzero. The film starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall and Martin Landau. The music score was by Alex North. It was photographed in 70 mm Todd-AO by Leon Shamroy and Jack Hildyard. Cleopatra chronicles the struggles of Cleopatra VII, the young Queen of Egypt, to resist the imperialist ambitions of Rome. Despite being a critical failure, it won four Academy Awards. It was the highest grossing film of 1963, earning US $26 million ($57.7 million total), yet made a loss due to its cost of $44 million, the only film ever to be the highest grossing film of the year yet to run at a loss.