In this heavy-going British Technicolor adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play, Claude Rains's oddly relaxed Julius Caesar plays father figure to Vivien Leigh's implausibly girlish Cleopatra, schooling her in the art of power with just a hint of May to December flirtation.
Director Richard Lester drives the farce in 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' so hard it's almost impossible to follow and inexplicably uses just five of Sondheim's songs.
This lugubrious box-office bomb, 'The Fall of the Roman Empire', charts the transition from poisoned philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius to wayward son Commodus, with Christopher Plummer's startling performance lost in the mix.
'Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra' is viewed as the best of the five live-action films, achieving a level of enjoyment despite the low standards of its predecessors.
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