Cleopatra (movie)

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The film's star, Paul Hogan, eventually married his co-star, Linda Kozlowski, and followed up the movie with two sequels, Crocodile Dundee II (1988), which enjoyed a great deal of success, and Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles (2001), which did not. Incidental music is taken from the 1963 film's score.
Award nominations:. The play is set during the location shoot in Rome.
Award wins:. On May 12, 2003, tied in with the 40th anniversary of the 1963 film, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 45-minute romantic comedy, written by David Varela (no relation to Leonor) called Olivia's Line. (draws bowie knife) Now that's a knife.".

Based on the book Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George and more faithful to history than the earlier versions, it was shown first on television and then released on videotape. The most famous line from the movie is often misquoted as, "That's not a knife - this is a knife!" The proper quotation is, "That's not a knife. The 1999 Cleopatra: starred Leonor Varela (Cleopatra), Timothy Dalton (Caesar), and Billy Zane (Antony). Most of the humour is drawn from his attempts to adapt to the unfamiliar features of this society, such as crowds, crime and bidets.
. He falls for an American journalist who comes to the outback to interview him, and returns with her to New York City, where he is faced with a culture he doesn't understand. It was so heavy that she could only wear it for short periods of time. The plot concerns Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (so nicknamed because he allegedly fought a crocodile and lived to tell the tale).

The suit of golden armor worn in the movie by Elizabeth Taylor was made from real gold, at a cost of about $1 million.
. Supposedly, the film is still listed as a negative cost for Fox today, which means that, technically, the movie still has not made back its initial investment.
. It was not a box-office flop, but it did not perform nearly as well as Fox hoped, and took several years to break even and the financial loss from the film forced the studio to file for bankruptcy. 1 film worldwide at the box office. It was made at a cost of $40 million -- an impossibly extravagant figure for that time; in todays dollars it can be priced at $270 million. Released on September 26, 1986 in the United States, it was the second highest grossing film in the USA in that year and went on to become the No.

The 1963 film is infamous for bankrupting 20th Century Fox. Inspired by the truelife exploits of Rodney Ansell, the film was made on a budget of under $10 million as a deliberate attempt to make a commercial Australian film that would appeal to a mainstream American audience, but proved to be a worldwide phenomenon. Cleopatra premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City on June 12, 1963. Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback in the area around "Walkabout Creek" and in New York City. It starred Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Richard Burton as Marc Antony, and Rex Harrison as Julius Caesar (nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor). Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - (Linda Kozlowski). The 1963 film was also nominated for Best Picture and won for cinematography, art direction, costumes, sets, and special effects. It was written by Sidney Buchman, Ben Hecht, Ranald MacDougall, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz from a book by Carlo Mario Franzero and was directed by Mankiewicz. BAFTA Award for Best Actor – (Paul Hogan).

It starred Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra, Warren William as Julius Caesar, Henry Wilcoxon as Marc Antony, Joseph Schildkraut as King Herod, and Ian Keith as Octavian. BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenply – (Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell). DeMille. Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay – (Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie, John Cornell). It was written by Bartlett Cormack, Vincent Lawrence, and Valdemar Young and was directed by Cecil B. Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. The 1934 film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won for cinematography (Victor Milner). Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy – (Paul Hogan).

Years later with the imposition of Hollywood's Hays Code the film was judged too obscene to be shown, and no surviving prints are known to exist. Michael Lombard  : Sam Charlton. The film was a great success at the time. Mark Blum  : Richard Mason. Theda Bara appeared in a variety of fantastic costumes, some quite risqué. Graham 'Grace' Walker  : Angelo. The story of this silent film was very loosely based on the plot of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Christine Totos  : Rosita.

It was one of the most elaborate Hollywood films ever produced up to that time, with particularly lavish sets and costumes. Peter Turnbull  : Trevor. Fritz Leiber played Julius Caesar and Thurston Hall played Marc Antony. Terry Gill  : Duffy. Gordon Edwards and starred Theda Bara in the title role. Gerry Skilton  : Nugget. The 1917 Fox film was directed by J. Steve Rackman  : Donk.

Movies of this title were released in 1912, 1917, 1920, 1934, 1963, and 1999. David Gulpilil  : Neville Bell. Cleopatra is the name of several movies about the last Egyptian queen of the same name. John Meillon  : Walter Reilly. Ancient Greece in the Cinema (http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Classics/NJL/films.html) (Nick Lowe). Linda Kozlowski  : Sue Charlton. The Cleopatra Costume on Stage and in Film (http://www.davidclaudon.com/Cleo/Cleopatra1.html) (David Clauson). 'Crocodile' Dundee.

Cleopatra on the Web : Movies (http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/cleopatra/13.html) (Tim Spalding). Paul Hogan  : Michael J.