Rob_Ray
Senior HTF Member
It's too bad they couldn't release it as two movies, but Zanuck was smart to release it as one, because the main reason it was the must-see movie that summer was to watch Taylor and Burton together after the many, many months of notorious publicity. But Burton's hardly in part one at all and who knew if their affair be yesterday's news by the time part two hit theatres? Zanuck wisely wanted to strike while the iron was hot and he probably made the right decision from a commercial standpoint if not an artistic one. Cleo-mana was so intense from late 1961 through the initial release in 1963 that everybody probably had had enough by year's end.GMpasqua said:"Cleopatra" was filmed as Two movies, then released as one. If the two films had remained Fox might have made more money and the cost would have been split bewteen the two films - possibly earning each a profit - and giving the public two excellent films instead of one above average film