Amazon.co.uk: Alexander The Great [1955]: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Barry Jones, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Peter Cushing, Michael Hordern, Marisa de Leza, Gustavo Rojo, Rubén Rojo, Peter Wyngarde, Helmut Dantine, Robert Rossen: Video

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Alexander The Great [1955]
VHS ~ Richard Burton

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Actors: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Barry Jones
Directors: Robert Rossen
Format: PAL
Language English
Classification:
Studio: MGM Entertainment
VHS Release Date: 20 Mar 2000
Run Time: 130 minutes

Average Customer Review:

(5 customer reviews)

ASIN: B00004RJ9B
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,462 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)
Popular in these categories:
#6 in Video > Action & Adventure > Historical
#39 in Video > Classic Films > Actors > Burton, Richard

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Richard Burton stars in Alexander the Great, a middling entry in the 1950s CinemaScope epic cycle. The film boasts excellent production values and a fine cast--including Frederic March, Claire Bloom, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker, Peter Cushing and Michael Hordern--but it rarely comes to life other than as a big fat ancient Greek wedding of the talents of Burton and Bloom. They strike real dramatic sparks together, so much so they would be reunited in Look Back in Anger (1958) and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965).

The film's failures must be laid at the feet of writer, director and producer Robert Rossen, who never before or after helmed anything remotely on this scale; his best work would follow with the intimate The Hustler (1961). Rossen simply shows little sensibility for the epic, staging lavish but brief and rather pedestrian battles and somehow drawing from the usually mesmerising Burton a performance lacking the charisma essential to a great military commander. Burton fans can enjoy him at his epic best as Marc Anthony in Cleopatra (1963).

On the DVD: Alexander the Great is presented anamorphically enhanced at 2.35:1, although the picture is still obviously cropped at either side of the screen throughout. The print is very variable, in places quite grainy and soft with some serious flickering blotchiness, but otherwise it has strong colours, detail and contrast. The sound is primitive stereo. The only extra is the theatrical trailer, effectively presented in anamorphic 2.35:1. --Gary S. Dalkin

Synopsis
The story of Alexander The Great, the Macedonian warrior who died at the age of thirty-three.

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