09-01-2010, 03:05 PM
Hi
Yes, Charlton Heston actually played Antony twice in 'Julius Caesar', both versions available on DVD. The first was an amateur film made in B&W around 1953 with Heston as a young man pre Ben-Hur. The second was made well after the fashion for epics in 1969. The low budget shows but there are some good external scenes filmed on location at the old stomping ground of the Samuel Bronston studios up in the hills above Madrid. The setting for films like 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' and 'King of Kings'. The film is well cast apart from a monotone performance by Jason Robards who ruins virtually every scene he is in and the awful costumes which Heston to his credit complained about.
Graham.
Yes, Charlton Heston actually played Antony twice in 'Julius Caesar', both versions available on DVD. The first was an amateur film made in B&W around 1953 with Heston as a young man pre Ben-Hur. The second was made well after the fashion for epics in 1969. The low budget shows but there are some good external scenes filmed on location at the old stomping ground of the Samuel Bronston studios up in the hills above Madrid. The setting for films like 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' and 'King of Kings'. The film is well cast apart from a monotone performance by Jason Robards who ruins virtually every scene he is in and the awful costumes which Heston to his credit complained about.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
