While Hollywood's Roman epics - Ben-Hur, for instance, or Spartacus - cast British actors as the villains and Americans as suffering slaves or Jews, the Shakespearean sagas have no such scheme and are much the weaker without it. This example is particularly turgid, undermined by Stuart Burge's pedestrian direction and a surprisingly weak Brutus from Jason Robards. John Gielgud, who was Cassius in the 1953 version, now plays Caesar, while Charlton Heston takes his second (though not his last) stab at playing Mark Antony on film.

All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.