Julius Caesar (1970)
Actors:
Phyllis Townshend (miscellaneous crew),
Christopher Lee (actor),
Jason Robards (actor),
William Shakespeare (writer),
Richard Johnson (actor),
Diana Rigg (actress),
André Morell (actor),
Michael Gough (actor),
Robert Vaughn (actor),
Charlton Heston (actor),
Richard Chamberlain (actor),
John Gielgud (actor),
Richard Chamberlain (actor),
Christopher Cazenove (actor),
Eric Boyd-Perkins (editor),
Plot: All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes' fickleness towards the events.
Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., ambush, ancient-rome, assassin, assassination, based-on-play, battle, battlefield, betrayal, blood
Genres:
Drama,
History,
War,
Taglines: No grander Caesar... No greater cast!
Julius Caesar (1953)
Actors:
Booth Colman (actor),
Charles Ferguson (actor),
Charles Ferguson (actor),
Marlon Brando (actor),
John Alderson (actor),
Morgan Farley (actor),
Michael Ansara (actor),
David Bond (actor),
James Dime (actor),
Lawrence Dobkin (actor),
John Doucette (actor),
Louis Calhern (actor),
Douglass Dumbrille (actor),
Oliver Blake (actor),
John Gielgud (actor),
Plot: Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man, makes a moving speech. The conspirators are driven from Rome, and two armies are formed: one side following the conspirators; the other, Antony. Antony has the superior force, and surrounds Brutus and Cassius, but they kill themselves to avoid capture.
Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., 40s-b.c., 44-b.c., ambush, ancient-rome, armor, army, assassination, assassination-plot, bare-chested-male
Genres:
Drama,
History,
Quotes:
Julius Caesar: [after being stabbed by Brutus] Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!
Marc Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar.
[last lines]::Marc Antony: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he, did what they did in envy of great Caesar. He only, in a general honest thought, and common will for all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that the nature might stand up and say to all the world, "This was a man."
Marc Antony: [to Caesar's dead body] O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.
Cassius: [referring to Julius Caesar] And this man is now become a god.
Cassius: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,/ But in ourselves that we are underlings.
Julius Caesar: Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cassius: Ye gods, it doth amaze me/ A man of such a feeble temper / Should so get the start of the majestic world/And bear the palm alone.
Brutus: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar/ I have not slept./ Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: / The Genius and the mortal instruments / Are then in council; and the state of man, / Like to a little kingdom, suffers then / The nature of an insurrection.
Cassius: Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he hath grown so great?
