Julius Caesar (1970 film)

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Julius Caesar
Film poster for Julius Caesar
Directed by	Stuart Burge
Produced by	Peter Snell
Written by	William Shakespeare (play) Robert Furnival (screenplay)
Starring	Charlton Heston Jason Robards John Gielgud Richard Johnson Robert Vaughn
Music by	Michael J. Lewis
Cinematography	Kenneth Higgins
Editing by	Eric Boyd-Perkins
Distributed by	Commonwealth United Entertainment
Release date(s)	1970
Running time	116 min.
Country	UK
Language	English
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Julius Caesar is a 1970 independent film of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, produced by Commonwealth United Entertainment. The film was directed by Stuart Burge, from a screenplay by Robert Furnival, and was produced by Peter Snell, with James Swann as associate producer, and Anthony B. Unger and Henry T. Weinstein as executive producers.

Charlton Heston (as Mark Antony) and Jason Robards (as Brutus) star with a mainly British cast including John Gielgud (as Julius Caesar), Richard Johnson (as Cassius), Robert Vaughn (as Casca), Richard Chamberlain (as Octavius), Diana Rigg (as Portia), Jill Bennett (as Calpurnia), Christopher Lee, Michael Gough and André Morell.

[edit] Trivia

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• John Gielgud played Cassius in the 1953 film version of Julius Caesar, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
• Charlton Heston had played Mark Antony once before, in an earlier film version of Julius Caesar, made in Chicago in 1950.^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Julius Caesar at the Internet Movie Database
• Julius Caesar at Rotten Tomatoes
• Julius Caesar reviewed by The New York Times

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