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Cleopatra (1934)

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Reviews Counted:8

Fresh:7

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Grandiose, epic, and vintage Hollywood. Claudette Colbert stars as the captivating and powerful Queen of Egypt in this classic Hollywood film. When Julius Caesar, the leader of the Roman Empire,... Grandiose, epic, and vintage Hollywood. Claudette Colbert stars as the captivating and powerful Queen of Egypt in this classic Hollywood film. When Julius Caesar, the leader of the Roman Empire, succumbs to the charms of the sultry Cleopatra, he creates a scandal big enough to shake the marble pillars of Rome. The ruler pays dearly for his romance, for the outraged Roman Senate repudiates him and the fickle Cleopatra decides to protect her interests by bestowing her affections on her former lover's rival, Marc Antony. Remade in 1963 with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. [More]

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael

Starring: Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Gertrude Michael, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Leonard Mudie, Irving Pichel, Arthur Hohl

Director: Cecil B. DeMille

Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Screenwriter: Waldemar Young, Vincent Lawrence
Producer: Cecil B. DeMille
Composer: Rudolph G. Kopp

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Apr 7, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region [unknown]
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Spanish
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono, French, Spanish, English
  • SUBTITLES: English SDH

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  • 1. Claudette Colbert: Queen of the Sliver Screen
  • 2. Cecil B. DeMille: Hollywood's Epic Director
  • 3. Forbidden Film: The Production Code Era
 
 
 
 

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... DeMille's lavish but stilted film... is all production value and no style.

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Despite many incongruous elements, like treating the text as soap opera and the dialogue as gossip, this is one of DeMille's most enjoyable films, superior to Mankiewicz 1963 version, in large part due to Claudette Colbert's sexy interpretation.

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DeMille at his most DeMille.

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It's fun to watch -- no, it's stunning to watch, because of all the money that DeMille and company threw at the screen.

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Typical overblown DeMille "historical" spectacle.

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The master showman Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934) is a modernistic 1930s costume spectacle that reshapes the Cleopatra story

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