It's crazy - Caesar loves Cleopatra

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Movie
German title It's crazy - Caesar loves Cleopatra
Original title Carry on Cleo
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 91 minutes
Rod
Director Gerald Thomas
script Talbot Rothwell
production Peter Rogers
music Eric Rogers
camera Alan Hume
cut Archie Ludski
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It's crazy - agents on the powder keg

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It's crazy - the brazen cowboy

It's crazy - Caesar loves Cleopatra (alternatively also: Cleo, Liebe und Antike ) is the tenth film in the series of carry-on ... films and a parody of sandal films , monumental films and historical ham of all kinds.

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In the course of the Roman conquest of Britain , two British, of all names, Hengist Pod and Horsa , fell into Roman captivity. Hengist is a stupid drip whose profession is a wheel maker. Unfortunately, he makes square wheels. Once in Rome , the two manage to escape to the Temple of Vesta . There they are ambushed and save Caesar 's life. Horsa escapes, and Caesar promotes Hengist to his bodyguard out of gratitude . Meanwhile, the Caesar to have Egypt sent Mark Antony in Cleopatra in love. But this only wants a liaison on a monarchical level - Mark Antony should eliminate Caesar and become emperor in his place . So Caesar is told that Cleopatra absolutely wants to get to know him. Now he sets off with his bodyguard and his oracular father-in-law Seneca, whom his wife Calpurnia sends as a guardian. After a failed attack on the high seas, you arrive in Egypt. Here Caesar, the most powerful person in the world, first has to collect a pickup at the door of Cleopatra's palace . Nevertheless there is a meeting with the pharaoh , and Cleopatra and Mark Antony try to kill Caesar several times. However, since Seneca had found an Egyptian seer who foresaw Caesar's death, Hengist had to swap positions with Caesar. The last attempt to kill Caesar at an amorous get-together also fails. With the help of the escaped slaves led by Horsa, the Romans manage to escape. Horsa and Hengist return to Britain and are happy, but Caesar is stabbed in the Senate .

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The film was shot in the sets and with some props from the 1963 Cleopatra film adaptation by Joseph L. Mankiewicz with Richard Burton (Mark Anton), Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra) and Rex Harrison (Caesar). Even an actor was taken on: Francis de Wolff, who plays Agrippa in Carry on Cleo , had played the role of Achillas in the Cleopatra production in the same costume, but had been cut out of the finished film. The costumes that Sid James wears as Marc Anton were already worn by Burton in his role. That was even to happen a second time when he included Burton's Queen 's wardrobe in Henry's bed stories for a thousand days . In addition, the film poster was based on the original poster to such an extent that there were problems with copyright infringement .

The name of the slave traders Marcus & Spencius fakes the well-known British fashion house Marks & Spencer , here too there were some problems because Marks & Spencer didn't really like it, especially since their colors green and gold were also used as the colors of the slave traders. However, after Marks & Spencer could be credibly assured that they had no bad intentions, they were satisfied with it.

Quotes

  • Julius Caesar: “Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me! "
(This phrase became the most quoted of all carry-on films; it has become the saying in England that found its way into everyday English vocabulary.)
  • Julius Caesar: “Friends, Romans, ...”
Various people in various situations: "... Countrymen."
Julius Caesar: “I know!”
(A recurring allusion to the drama Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare .)
  • Hengist Pod: "I think someone's making a convenience of you!" (to Horsa, who was branded with the monogram WC on his arm because it was bought by a plump lady named Willa Claudia at the slave market.)

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