Antony and Cleopatra (1972) on Netflix
In Egypt, the Roman general Mark Antony has fallen in love with its queen, Cleopatra, and cares little for the messengers who arrive from Rome. She persuades him to hear them.
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Mark Antony is a Roman general and one of the three men who rule Rome. He is in Egypt with Cleopatra, its queen, and has fallen in love with her. Messengers come from Rome with news of its political affairs, and he takes no interest in them until Cleopatra talks him into listening. Proculeius brings him word that his wife Fulvia is dead, after a rebellion she and his brother Lucius Antonius had raised against Octavius, another of the triumvirs.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Charlton Heston considered Irene Pappas, Anne Bancroft, Sophia Loren and Susannah York for Cleopatra, dismissed Glenda Jackson after seeing Women in Love, and screen-tested Barbara Jefford and Hildegarde Neil before casting Neil.
- Heston re-used leftover footage of the sea battle from his 1959 film Ben-Hur, plus outtakes from the 1963 film Cleopatra.
