I had read [...] that the TV-pilot starring William Shatner (before his Star Trek fame) was actually "the best Alexander out there." So, this evening my husband and I gave it a try. The cheesy music at the beginning should have been a warning. The actors didn't say their lines; they shouted them; the scenes consisted mostly of men on horseback galloping here and there; Alexander's love-interest looked ridiculously out of place with her bee-hive hairdo, false eyelashes, and thick eyeliner. In fact, everything about the movie oozed the artificiality of the 60's. My husband gave up on it after about twenty minutes, but I stuck it out for the full hour and a half. The only thing I can say in its favor is that its demise as a potential series allowed Shatner to go on to star in Star Trek. If his "Alexander" had been a success, we might never have known Capt. Kirk!