"The funniest film since 54 BC"
"Infamy, Infamy, they've all got it in for me."	DVD UK	Original Poster		Spanish Poster

 

Running Time - 92m	Colour		Certificate - A
Budget - £194,500		UK Release - December 1964
Shot - 13 July 1964 - 28 August 1964

Foreign Titles
Belgium - Ok, Cleo	Denmark - So, So Cleopatra
France - Stop Your Chariot Cleo	Portugal - Way to Go Cleopatra
Greece - Heroic Suckers in the Country of the Pharaoh

 

The Stars
	Sidney James Kenneth Williams Kenneth Connor Charles Hawtrey Joan Sims Jim Dale Amanda Barrie Julie Stephens Shelia Hancock Victor Maddern John Pertwee Francis de Wolff Michael Ward Brian Oulton Tom Clegg Peter Gilmore Warren Mitchell Gertan Klauber Wanda Ventham EVH Emmett	Mark Antony Julius Caesar Hengist Pod Seneca Calpurnia Horsa Cleo Gloria Senna Pod Sergeant Major Soothsayer Agrippa Archimedes Brutus Sosages Galley Master Spencius Marcus Pretty Bidder Narrator

The Crew
Producer Director Screenplay Music Cinematographer Editor	Peter Rogers Gerald Thomas Talbot Rothwell Eric Rogers Alan Hume BSc Archie Ludski

Synopsis In an attempt to lure audiences away from their TVs and back into the cinemas, the film industry provided a host of spectacular epics taken from mythology, history and the Bible.  Classics such as Ben Hur and Spartacus introduced the public to Ancient Rome and in 1963 the most expensive film of its time, Cleopatra made a perfect target for a Carry On film.  They even had the use of the Cleopatra film sets which were at the Pinewood lot. The Carry On team are in fine fettle in this version of the classic tale with Mark Antony (Sid James) chasing after the scatty Cleopatra (Amanda Barrie) and trying to look after his boss Julius Caesar (Kenneth Williams).   Kenneth plays the role with his usual panache coming up with some of his best lines in the whole series, such as ‘Infamy, Infamy, they’ve all got it in for me!’ and his first line in the film ‘Oh, I do feel queer’.  Calpurnia (Joan Sims) is Caesar’s wife and Seneca (Charles Hawtrey) is her father who wards Caesar of the Ides of March. The Britons are well played too with scared Hengist (Kenneth Connor) being mistaken for excellent swordsman Horsa (Jim Dale), and subsequently being taken on as Caesar’s personal bodyguard. There are also some excellent performances from some of the Irregulars, with Warren Mitchell as auctioneer Spencius, brother of Marcus, Sheila Hancock as Senna Pod, wife of Hengist and Jon Pertwee as a soothsayer consulted by Caesar before he goes to see Cleo.

 

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