Julius Caesar
6,509
Drama
The grandeur of the Roman world and powerful jealousy thunder together in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s famous JULIUS CAESAR. Scheming Cassius (John Gielgud), envious of the honors and love conferred upon Caesar by the Roman people, convinces Brutus (James Mason) and other senators that Caesar must be slain before he accepts the ultimate honor of king. But loyal Marc Antony (Marlon Brando), calling forth ... [+]
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United States | Variety | "A tense, melodramatic story, clearly presented, and excellently acted by one of the finest casts assembled for a film." | POS |
United Kingdom | Time Out | "A remarkably successful stab at Shakespeare." | POS |
United States | Chicago Reader | "Unimaginative but intelligent." | NEU |
United States | The New York Times | "A stirring and memorable film." | POS |
United States | The New Yorker | "Over Caesar's corpse Brando begins to mix grief, rage, cunning, and ferocity; his reading of the funeral oration is so quakingly angry you understand why it would rouse the rabble." | POS |
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