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Julius Caesar (1970)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1970
Running Times: 117 mins
Format: Technicolor 35mm Panavision (anamorphic)
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Commonwealth United Entertainment
Executive Producers: Anthony B. Unger, Henry T. Weinstein
Producer: Peter Snell
Associate Producer: James Swann
Production Manager: Denis Johnson Jr

SCRIPT
Script: Robert Furnival
Play: William Shakespeare

DIRECTION
Director: Stuart Burge
2nd Unit Director: Joe Canutt

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ken Higgins
2nd Unit Lighting Cameraman: Frank Kingston
Camera Operators: Roy Ford, Ken Withers

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Eric Boyd-Perkins

MUSIC
Music: Michael J. Lewis
Orchestrator: Lawrence Ashmore
Conductor: Michael J. Lewis

SOUND
Sound: Paddy Cunningham
Dubbing Editor: Vernon Messenger

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Hair: Anne Forsythe
Make Up Supervisor: Cliff Sharpe
Make Up: Christopher Tucker
Make Up Assistant: Nick Maley (uncredited)
Costume Designer: Robin Archer
Wardrobe Supervisor: Barbara Gillett

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Julia Trevelyan Oman
Art Director: Maurice Pelling
Title Designer: Bob Gill

LOCATIONS
Locations: Spain
Studios: Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; Metro-Goldwin-Mayer British Studios

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Phyllis Townsend
1st Assistant Manager: Christopher Dryhurst

CAST
Charlton Heston (Marc Antony)
Jason Robards (Brutus)
John Gielgud (Julius Caesar)
Richard Johnson (Cassius)
Robert Vaughn (Casca)
Richard Chamberlain (Octavius Caesar)
Diana Rigg (Portia)
Christopher Lee (Artemidorus)
Jill Bennett (Calpurnia)
Derek Godfrey (Decius Brutus)
David Dodimead (Lepidus)
Michael Gough (Metellus Cimber)
David Neal (Cinna the conspirator)
Preston Lockwood (Trebonius)
John Moffatt (Popilius Lena)
Steven Pacey (Lucius)
Edwin Finn (Publius)
Peter Eyre (Cinna the poet)
Norman Bowler (Titinius)
Paul Hardwick (Messala)
John Tate (Clitus)
Damien Thomas (Pindarus)
Robert Keegan (Lucilius)
Ewan Hooper (Strato)
Andrew Crawford (Volumnius)
Thomas Heathcote (Flavius)
André Morell (Cicero)
Alan Browning (Marullus)
Laurence Harrington (carpenter)
Ron Pember (cobbler)
Derek Hardwick, Ken Hutchison (uncredited), Michael Keating, David Leland, Yvette Rees, Michael Wynne (Plebians)
Trevor Adams, Ronald Magill, Linbert Spencer (Caesar's Servant)
Robin Chadwick (Octavius' servant)
Barbara Lindley (slave)
Roy Stewart (Lepidus' slave)
Alba (the soothsayer)
Christopher Cazenove (Anthony's servant - uncredited)
Liz Gebhardt (Calpurnia's maid - uncredited)

AVAILABILITY

USA
Theatrical Distributor: AIP
Video Distributor: Republic Pictures Corporation
Laserdisc Distributor: Image Entertainment (ID 6259 RE)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: G

POSTER TAGS

No grander Caesar... No greater cast!

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Julius Caesar (1908)
Julius Caesar (1950)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Hollywood Reporter vol.206 no.34 (27 June 1969) p.14 (USA)
credits

Kine Weekly no.3223 (19 July 1969) pp.20-21 (UK)
review

Today's Cinema no.9662 (21 April 1969) p.9 (UK)
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Today's Cinema no.9688 (23 June 1969) pp.8-9 (UK)
review

Today's Cinema no.9810 (5 June 1970) p.8 (UK)
review

BOOKS

Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.236
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KEYWORDS

play into film, prophecies, dreams, ghosts, rome, betrayal, emperors, empires

 


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