Word: caesarism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DeMille picture without a battle scene would be as deficient as one without a bathtub. In Cleopatra, the bath in which Roman senators are shown scraping their elbows with strigils while plotting to kill Caesar is the biggest that has ever appeared in a DeMille picture, but the battle scene fails to set any record. This is because Antony's officers have deserted him and he has nothing left but a few re- painted chariots and a regiment or two of Egyptians. When these have been hacked, speared and ground to death under an enormous spiked wheel, Antony is left...
Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert) first arrives in the presence of Julius Caesar (Warren William) rolled up in a Persian rug. Later she puts on her familiar transparent skirt and brassiere, proceeds to seduce her conqueror in short order, accompanies him to Rome. When Caesar is assassinated, Cleopatra scuttles back to Egypt...
Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon) is a dog fancier. He arrives in Egypt with two hungry Great Danes which sniff contemptuously around Director DeMille's lavish furnishings. With Antony, Cleopatra's technique is less subtle than with Caesar. She inveigles him aboard what the newspaper advertisements of this picture titillatingly refer to as her LOVE BARGE, gives him fancy hors d'oeuvres, wine in silver cups and clamshells full of pearls, served by classic chorus girls emerging from a fishing net as naked as Censor Joseph Breen will allow. During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards...
Blackie Gallagher was the most engaging screen gangster to come out of Hollywood since Little Caesar. Gay, ruthless. debonair, he rose from guttersnipe to big-shot with swashbuckling bravado, killing in cold blood all who opposed him. Finally the Law caught Blackie Gallagher, marched him to the electric chair...
...practice of Augustus Caesar, when preparing to take over some new bloc of power, to deliver a eulogy on the virtues of the republic and announce his deep solicitude for the liberties and happiness of the people. How faithfully this fine precedent has been emulated in the modern world by dictators and bureaucrats alike...