one of the thing that i always think about julius caesar be that in the life of one of the great mover and shaker of the ancient world and he merely a figure in which all kind of people at the end be busy weave their scheme around and be it his death or his conferred immortality . antony and brutus be each worried about their place in caesar affection and brutus figure he lose out to antony . it make him an easy mark for cassius plot . after the dirty deed of assassination be do and it antony and octavius though they be team up against the conspirator and you can tell both in this version and in the good fifty version that mgm put out that they will soon be at odds . charlton heston be a strong antony here and but unfortunately for the play to succeed you need an equally strong brutus . that not what you get in jason robards and jr. for a man who in his time be consider the great interpreter of eugene oneill and when it come to shakespeare the man be out of his league . no reflection on him and everyone have cast limitation . a real good interpreter of the bard who play cassius back in 1954 play caesar here . john gielgud be equally fine in both version . and richard johnson and robert vaughn be superb a conspirator cassius and casca . and richard chamberlain who be try very hard to shed his dr. kildare image be fine a the cunning octavian who antony ultimately underestimates . charlton heston in his memoir take blame for cast robards and robards himself realize he be miscast . oddly enough in that early version james mason a brutus be the best one in the film .