Julius Caesar

MGM's acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

7.1

|1953|121 min

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 both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

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