Julius Caesar (1970 film)

Julius Caesar is a 1970 British independent film adaptation of William Shakespeares play, directed by Stuart Burge from a screenplay by Robert Furnival. The film stars Charlton Heston as Mark Antony, Jason Robards as Brutus and John Gielgud as Julius Caesar. It is the first film version of the play made in colour. Robert Vaughn, who plays Casca, and Richard Chamberlain, who plays Octavius, are the only Americans in the film other than Robards and Heston.

The reviews for this version upon its theatrical release were mostly negative, with Robards especially being criticized for his wooden performance as Brutus. The film failed at the box office. Critic Roger Ebert gives it only one star.Upon its 2013 Bluray disc release, it met with a more positive review from the website DVD Talk, although Jason Robards performance was still soundly panned. Its previous DVD release, which was panandscanned rather than letterboxed, had been harshly criticized, and several other DVD reviewers also disparaged the film. ........

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