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Classic Films

dameatball

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3. I saw it in our small town theatre and did think the magnificent scenery was wonderful, but had

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Sun Feb 17, 2019, 08:19 PM

Feb 2019

several other preferences in those years. James Bond, Pink Panther, Magnificent Seven, Great Escape, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad. Mad World, Ben-Hur…….although many of these were not exactly the same year. I think what ruined Cleopatra for me was the constant Richard/Liz crap. It over shadowed the film.

I do remember it was possibly the most expensive film made up until that time. I suppose it made some money, not sure how much.

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I saw Cleopatra for the first time yesterday I was 11 when it came out and we were way too Catholic [View all] jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 OP

Wasn't it the most expensive movie ever made at that time. CatMor Feb 2019 #1

yes it was jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #2

That had to be quite a payload. CatMor Feb 2019 #4

I saw it in our small town theatre and did think the magnificent scenery was wonderful, but had dameatball Feb 2019 #3

Liz Taylor was Catholic? rurallib Feb 2019 #5

she was almost Catholic jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #6

yeah I knew about Bing and his beatings rurallib Feb 2019 #7

he also drove their mom, Dixie to the bottle jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 #8

Yeah - had a nun in 7th grade who just obsessed on Bing rurallib Feb 2019 #9