Julius Caesar (1950)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Director:

David Bradley

Escritores:

David Bradley (writer)
William Shakespeare (play)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

marzo 1950 (USA)

Género:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | Ancient Rome | Based On Play | Character Name In Title

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Caesar, Chicago Gangster?

Reparto

Harold Tasker	...	Julius Caesar
Charlton Heston	...	Antony
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
David Bradley	...	Brutus
Theodore Cloak	...	Emil Lepidus
Mary Sefton Darr	...	Portia
Homer Dietmeier	...	Artemidorus
Alfred Edyvean	...	Flavius
George Gilbert	...	Strato
Grosvenor Glenn	...	Cassius
Russell Gruebner	...	Cinna-the poet
Walter Hardy	...	Cimber
George Hinners	...	Lucius
Bob Holt	...	Octavius Caesar
Sam Needham	...	Pindarus
John O'Leary	...	Marullus
Cornelius Peeples	...	Popilius
Frederick Roscoe	...	Decius
Helen Ross	...	Calpurnia
Arthur Sus	...	Cinna
Don Walker	...	Soothsayer

También conocida como:

Julio César (Venezuela) [es]

Duración:

106 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Locaciones de Filmación:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Compañía:

Avon Productions (II)

Trivialidades:

Musical director Grant Fletcher hired Chuck Zornig 72 hours before the recording date, handing him a two-bar harmonic sketch by 'John Becker (II') and a shot list to work from. From this, Zornig produced a 32-page score, still copying parts for musicians as they arrived to record the score. Becker approached Zornig and asked him how he could read his two-bar sketch. Zornig replied, "When I couldn't I just chose the most dissonant sounds," causing Becker to roar with laughter.

Conexiones de Película:

Version of Julius Caesar (1938) (TV)

Caesar, Chicago Gangster?

Back in the 1930s, a reporter named Wallace Irwin wrote a hard-boiled mystery novel spoof called THE JULIUS CAESAR MURDER CASE, in which Caesar and his cronies behaved and talked like cut-throat gangsters...which, when you think about it, they were. I kept thinking of Irwin's novel as I watched this black-and-white low-budget oddity from 1950, which was filmed in Chicago at various sites that double quite well for ancient Rome. The look is ancient, but the actor's accents could be straight out of an old James Cagney or Edward G.Robinson gangster movie. With that in mind, this movie provides yet another interesting take on one of the best plays ever written: Shakespeare's Caesar is the first and greatest Godfather of them all.

This movie marks the first of many appearances in loincloth by Charlton Heston (aged 25), who reprised the role of Antony in the 1970s all-star version, and again played Antony in his own movie adaptation of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. The role fits him like a glove.

There's also a small appearance by Jeffrey Hunter, who speaks a few lines and has some close-ups as a plebeian in the crowd reacting to the speeches by Brutus and Antony.

All in all, a worthwhile curiosity for anyone interested in pioneering independent film, Shakespeare movies, or the career of Charlton Heston.