- Theda Bara's Cleopatra is the wanton Siren of Egypt: she ensnares Caesar by a ruse, tears treasure from a mummy's breast to fund her pursuit of Antony, revels with him in Alexandria, and rules so intolerably that the priesthood wants her dead.
Cleopatra (1917)
film
Egyptianscatalogued, not screened by the author
- Distributor
- FOX
- Cast
- Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall
- Production notes
- Silent. Notes from Ronald Bower in MAG (322–5). One of AFI’s “Ten Most Wanted Lost Movies.”