Product Description
Brand new DVD manufactured in South Korea. NTSC format playable on all North American DVD players. Plot Synopsis: Cleopatra hasn't been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Caesar finds the prospect of romance more tempting than he expected, since Cleopatra is a rare woman who is bright as well as beautiful. And for Cleopatra, a friendly relationship with the most powerful man in the world may pay dividends in the future.
Customer Reviews:
Shaw play.......2007-07-28
The only way to enjoy this film is to think of it as a George Bernard Shaw play, which is what it is. It's wholly unrealistic and ahistorical. It's also quite boring at times. Leigh reminds one of Judy Garland in The Pirate two years later--going under, plagued by her demons, and overacting shamelessly. Rains is fine, as long as you think of Caesar as 5 foot three inches and wandering the desert alone, spouting often hammy lines. If you like the play, you'll no doubt appreciate the film. For most people, this is something to avoid. The Koreans, by the way, would do well to learn how to spell the actors' names and place them in the appropriate place on the box. The Korean subtitles can be turned off.
Spelling Be Damned! It's a Great Disc and a Good Buy!.......2007-01-24
When the company that makes these can't even spell the names of the stars right on the jacket, you get a queasy feeling that maybe you wasted your money - again. Fear Not! The disc itself plays well. I thought the colors were perhaps a bit over saturated, but that could have been the settings on my new TV. This is to me one of the great movies of all time and I have been trying to get a DVD of it for years. Finally I am satisfied. Caesar is the way I want him to be and think he was. All the rest are also dead on - even kittenish Cleo. Thanks again, Mr. Shaw. A great play and a great movie. (only 4 stars is for the idiot who couldn't watch the film to get the star's name right).
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Manufacturer: Film Prestige
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Product Description
This is collector's edition NTSC DVD (USA & Canada) without region coding officially released in Russia by studio "Film Prestige". Available Audio Tracks: original ENGLISH and RUSSIAN (voice-over). Available Subtitles: RUSSIAN (removable)
Customer Reviews:
To be in Bernard Shaw 's mood!.......2005-11-14
Claude Rains as Caesar and Viviane Leigh as Cleopatra star this dazzling story that rides between the drama and comedy. A splendid occasion to crown once more the corrosive humor that literally permeates a good part of the dialogues. There is humor but also a formidable description and bold personal statement of this privileged dramaturge. The movie ha its particular rhythm, you may consider something theatrical, but that does not diminish at all its intrinsic virtues.
Basil Sydney as the Caesar 's shield, Flora Robson as Totatita and Stewart Granger are particularly effective in this British gem, that I insist maintains a very special feature, that demands from you the major attention.
Delicious and admirable portrait of a very special approach around the emotional, political, social and backstage in this satirical, clever and always reminded adaptation of Georges Bernard Shaw.
Go for this. One of the most admirable British gems of the middle forties.
Read your history, folks!.......2005-11-10
One of the reviewers states that Cleopatra "was said to be in her 40s when she met Caesar." That would be impossible, since she died at the age of 39 (her dates are B.C.E. 69-30). In actuality, she was 18 when she met Caesar, so Miss Leigh's youthful portrayal is based on history. (It is widely accepted nowadays, however, that the historical Cleopatra was nowhere near as gorgeous as the young Vivien Leigh.) This is not hidden knowledge; it is commonly known historical fact that anyone could easily verify with a little research. The problem with the internet is that people can say anything and present it as a fact, even when they are totally wrong. I have not seen the DVD version of this film; I have an old VHS copy that unfortunately "compresses" the time slightly to make it fit on one cassette, with the result that everyone seems to be speaking incredibly fast and in a high-pitched voice. I hope the correct running speed was restored for the DVD.
Give it a chance.......2004-11-29
Ceasar & Cleoptra is based on Shaw's play and alas it's very, almost painfully stiff and stagey. They essentially took the play and filmed it and that rarely if ever, works on screen. So let's talk about the good. Vivien Leigh was marvelous as the beautiful but dangerous kitten with a knife girl-queen. In real life Queen Cleo was said to be in her 40s when she met Ceasar but anyway, Vivien is sparkling.
Claude Raines is great as always as Ceasar and it's fun watching the all Brit cast and spotting people you've seen in character roles in every other English movie made in the 30s and 40s. Oh and did young Stewart Granger have some magnificent legs or what?
Little happens because this movie is a battle of wits between Cleo and the Roman conqueror. There is (perhaps because of the age difference of the leads) little passion and no mention of the child Cleopatra had by Ceasar. It's not as fun as the Elizabeth Taylor epic but when you're in the mood for old time British drama give this version a chance.
Vivien is stunning!.......2003-12-08
This movie is pretty cool but Vivien makes it marvelous! Hey DVD people! Why does this movie get released on DVD for the UK and not the USA? I would like this movie for my DVD collection!
It's Still A Delight! Really It Is!..........2003-06-03
Yes, those that complain that this 1946 film version of Shaw's famous play of the same name is mainly 'stage-bound' and the acting often seems 'stilted'-- well, sigh, they surely have a point.
Bernard Shaw himself (he did not die until the 1950s) is credited with the screenplay, which may have something to do with the criticisms. Shaw is very talky and hard to 'transfer' to motion picture standards of verisimulitude, but this movie has a beautiful, delightful Vivien Leigh, the incomparable Claude Rains, the beautifully dashing Stewart Granger, plus 'old friends' of the classic British cinema such as Flora Robson, Felix Aylmer, Basil Sidney, Stanley Holloway, Leo Genn, Francis L. Sullivan -- all who appeared in wonderful films like Laurence Olivier's 'Hamlet', David Lean's 'Great Expectations' and many other intelligent pictures of that pre- and post-war (WWII, that is) period. (There is even a very very young, but very lovely as always, Jean Simmons as a slave of Cleopatra who plays the harp.)
The picture attempts an 'epic' look, with battles yet noted I'm afraid by unconvincing stunt work and 'casts of thousands' sort of milling about -- and Cecil B. De Mille does this so much better than Gabriel Pascal, the director of 'Caesar and Cleopatra'. But I myself admit I love the Shavian ambience -- the intellectual activist actually attractive (in Shaw's plays at least!) to the winsome young woman; ... friendship, discussion and respect; thought as more important than 'action-adventure'.
If Shaw's plays do seem too dated to you and they generally bore you, yes, stay far away from this film! But if you brighten when 'entertainment' is also provocative to the intellect and not only to the eye (and other sense organs) -- and particularly if you have great affection for the era of British cinema dominated by Olivier, David Lean, and the early Tony Richardson and featuring so many familiar and adept character actors that fill the firmament with 'supporting' stars, you will like the movie, and ignoring its quite obvious flaws, enjoy every minute: I guarantee it!...
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First, Charlie talks with Judge Harold Rothwax, who during his 25 years on the bench, concluded that the criminal justice needs to be fixed. His book is Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice. Then, Vaness Redgrave is making her American directoral debut and starring in Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, while Corin, her brother, made his American directoral and acting debut in Julius Caesar. These two plays are part of an international collaboration between the Redgraves' Moving Theatre Company and Houston's Alley Theater. Finally, on to discuss the latest discoveries in neurology and the brain's ability to adapt, as detailed in his new book, Brain Repair, is Donald Stein, a neuroscientist at Emory University.
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Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages: o English (mono) Synopsis:
In its time, Caesar and Cleopatra was the most lavish British film ever produced and was both a financial and critical disappointment. Viewed today, the flaws are obvious, but its virtues are also more apparent. On the debit side, the film is wildly overproduced with all of the money spent on spectacle getting in the way of what at heart is a character study cum sociological tract. Author George Bernard Shaw is known for writing "talky" plays. Those who savor his sharp wit, incisive observations, and marvelous facility with words will find much to enjoy in Caesar. But those who believe that movies are a medium that need to tell stories in as visual a manner as possible will largely be bored by Caesar -- and not without reason, as Gabriel Pascal has directed in a lumbering and plodding manner almost throughout. The stars are well cast, with Vivien Leigh an alluring and fiery Cleopatra and Claude Rains appropriately cynical and withering as Caesar. And there's able support from the delicious Flora Robson and a virile Stewart Granger. Ultimately, there's both good and bad in Caesar, and a viewer's reaction to it will largely depend upon his willingness to sit through an elephantine production to enjoy Shaw's remarkable wordplay. Special Features:
o Interactive Menu
o Photo Gallery
o Scene Access
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