Review: Cleopatra

Cleopatra by Robert Geissmann
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is like a movie souvenir program from 1963. It feels like the '60s equivalent of Peter Jacksons "The Appendices" for LOTR, etc. Plenty of color and shows how the movie was made, the history behind the events portrayed and key personnel on both sides of the camera. The first part talks about the relevant Roman and Egyptian history around Cleopatra's rise and fall. The second part deals with
the movie production and several key scenes from the movie. There are, of course photos of Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, etc. with biographical details down to choreographer Hermes Pan. It feels like the pics of Taylor and other women in the film are purposefully slanted to the racy presentation. This probably made it easy for men to pick up a copy "for the house"

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