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Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
2001 Directed by Kevin Burns, Brent Zacky
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Keith Baxter Stephen Boyd Jack Brodsky David Brown Richard Burton Joan Collins Hume Cronyn Robert Culp John DeCuir C.O. Erickson Peter Finch Eddie Fisher Rex Harrison Martin Landau Rouben Mamoulian Christopher Mankiewicz Rosemary Mankiewicz Tom Mankiewicz Roddy McDowall Bill Mechanic Marilyn Monroe Maureen O'Hara Debbie Reynolds Rino Romano Elizabeth Taylor Robert Wagner Raquel Welch Joanne Woodward Darryl F. Zanuck Show All…
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Kevin Burns Steven Smith Michele Farinola Brent Zacky Colin Cotter Scott Hartford Michael D. Stevens Jessica Falcon Marc Juris
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This documentary uses rare outtakes and rushes, and a parade of talking heads, to tell us how the great folly that was 'Cleopatra' was started, abandoned, made, released in the wake of scandal as Burton and Taylor left their respective spouses to set up home together, and eventually flopped to derisive critical comment and poor audiences.
Having said that, this film still intrigues today and has stayed the course of fifty years despite it being overblown and daft. There is a great story that can be told about it - I just felt this documentary wasn't it.
We didn't hear how the original aborted production (in which Peter Finch was cast as Caesar and Stephen Boyd as Antony) was going…