Netflix's African Queens director defending her choice to cast a Black actor prompts a response from Egyptian…
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Cast
Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra)Richard Burton (Mark Antony)Rex Harrison (Julius Caesar)Pamela Brown (High Priestess)George Cole (Flavius)Hume Cronyn (Sosigenes)Cesare Danova (Apollodorus)Kenneth Haigh (Brutus)Andrew Keir (Agrippa)Martin Landau (Rufio)Roddy McDowall (Octavian - Caesar Augustus)Robert Stephens (Germanicus)Francesca Annis (Eiras)Grégoire Aslan (Pothinus)Martin Benson (Ramos)Herbert Berghof (Theodotos)John Cairney (Phoebus)Jacqueline Chan (Lotos)
Director
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Synopsis
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
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