Summer Under the Stars: Marlon Brando

Star of the Day: Marlon Brando

Julius Caesar (1953): "The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony."

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I've never been the biggest Brando fan, but I do enjoy Shakespeare and Julius Caesar is my favourite of his plays (I wonder what that says about me...).

This was a fine adaptation, well acted. It more felt like Brando was confined to being a 'true crime' investigator trailing along with his New York accent while James Mason and John Geilgud acted circles around him, but oh well (it's true).

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