Expanded (one new cue) and remastered.

Bringing Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" was a long-standing dream project for Charlton Heston, who directs as well as stars. Hampered by a nonexistent budget, Heston and his fellow troupers serve up a production that would do justice to a good touring company. The film soars whenever the actors soliloquize in close-up, but falls down badly whenever an ensemble scene is required. Though Hildegarde Neil is merely an adequate Cleopatra, Eric Porter is brilliant as Enobarbus, rendering the fabled "barge she sat on" speech with eloquent panache. All in all, Antony and Cleopatra deserved a better distribution than it received (except for an occasional TV presentation, the film was never released in the US). 1972

Part One

1. Overture
2. Main Titles
3. Undying Love
4. Give Me To Drink, Mandragora
5. Pompey
6. Egyptian Bacchanal
7. Cleopatra Deserted
8. Rome and Octavia
9. The Barge She Sat In
10. Battle of Actium

Part Two

11. Antony's Army Deserts
12. Whither Hast Thou Led Me...
13. Death Of Enobarbus
14. One Last Night Of Love
15. He Goes Forth Gallently
16. Somestimes We See a Cloud...
17. Death Of Antony
18. Pretty Worm../Death of Cleopatra
19. Epilogue/Eternal rest