- Egypt is staged as the place that unmans a Roman: Cleopatra keeps Antony from his duties, strikes the messenger who brings unwelcome news, and her fleet's mid-battle flight at Actium seals his ruin, the queen played as a capricious seductress whose moods cost an empire.
Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
film
- Distributor
- RANK
- Cast
- Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil
- Production notes
- Adapted by Heston. Filmed in Spain