Antony and Cleopatra
by Charlton Heston
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Actor: Charlton Heston, Fernando Rey, Hildegard NeilDirector: Charlton Heston
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 160 unknown-units
Published: 1985
Publisher: Embassy
Studio: Embassy
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Movie Review: Hard to Find...Snap It Up
Summary: 4 Stars
Charlton Heston directed and starred in this production of Shakespeare's *Antony and Cleopatra*. Filmed in England in 1972, it seems to have been influenced by Franco Zefferelli's 1968 version of *Romeo and Juliet* in which nudity was introduced into film adaptations of the bard's plays.
English teachers who may wish to show this movie in class should preview the film and make their own decisions about whether to employ the famous "hold-a-folder-in-front-of-the-screen" technique as Heston did find a way to introduce a bit of skin, creating a scene on Cleopatra's barge where her ladies-in-waiting go in for some eye-popping sunbathing in front of the eunuch who protects them.
J. Arthur Rank (1888-1972), the British founder of the Rank Group, PLC, which made the movie, got into the filmmaking industry in the 1930s in an effort to bring family-friendly films to the British filmgoing audience to counter-balance what he considered the risque direction American films were taking. Knowing that, one wonders if the sincere Methodist, who would have been 84 and in the last days of his life when this film was in production, would have jumped so blithely onto the Zefferelli bandwagon had he still had a hand in what his company was doing.
Still, the delivery of the Shakespearean dialogue is masterful, which is an important consideration for the literature classroom. My main disappointment was that Heston's Antony seemed wooden and hardly the slobbering fool that "piece of work," Cleopatra, led around by the nose. Thus, Heston lost a key element in Shakespeare's history plays: how human folly can bring down even the greatest of the world's powers.
Since this movie was made in England, it is hard to find in a VHS format that will play in Region 1. It has not yet been released in DVD format, and since Charlton Heston himself considered this film a flop, it may be a long time before someone takes the risk of doing so. Bottom line: snap up a VHS copy and make your own decisions about classroom use.
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Summary of Antony and Cleopatra
Charlton Heston worked very hard in "Anthony and Cleopatra" an adaptation of Shakespeare scripted by himself. Heston is the director too, and the movie is a wonderful experience of filmmaking, a true labour of love, with some fault, perhaps, but full of energetic sequences. a story of love, passion and death. Heston knows very well the Shakespeare original, and he express in the screen all the strenght , all the fascination of the shakesperian text. "Anthony and Cleopatra" was filmed in Spain , with a marvellous soundtrack and a great camera work. Heston is superb in the title role.Movies most talked about in Video Genres
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