Cleopatra (1963) - Cleopatra and Octavian [HD]

A review of the 1963 film Cleopatra detailed below. For all other clips from this movie please see my playlist: Octavian offers to allow Cleopatra to rule Egypt as a Roman province if she will accompany him to Rome. Epics from Ancient History With the advent of televisions in the lounge rooms of everyday families in the 1950s, the response from the studios and film-makers was to try and provide their audiences with something TV couldn’t provide i.e. spectacle and widescreen (cinemascope). The first theatrical film released cinemascope was 1953s The Robe a biblical epic telling the story of what happened to the robe Jesus wore before he was crucified. The huge success of this film saw other studios embarking on their own versions of cinemascope (ie. VistaVision, Panavision etc) whilst also using the format to shoot large scale outdoor films, whether it be historical epics, biblical dramas and w