Peter Finch for Best Actor for "No Love for Johnnie" (1961), although like "Oscar Wilde", the film lost money. He was originally chosen to play Julius Caesar in "Cleopatra" (1963) and filmed scenes in London, but when the film was postponed he withdrew; the role was recast with Rex Harrison. Finch made a series of unsuccessful Hollywood films: "The Sins of Rachel Cade" (1961), an attempt to repeat the success of "The Nun's Story", with Angie Dickinson; then two for director Robert Stevens at MGM: "I Thank a Fool" (1962) and "In the Cool of the Day" (1963). Finch restored his critical
Julius Caesar (1970 film) several other DVD reviewers also disparaged the film. John Gielgud played Cassius in the 1953 film version of "Julius Caesar", directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Charlton Heston had played Mark Antony once before, in an earlier film version of "Julius Caesar", made in Chicago in 1950. He would do so yet again, in a 1972 film version of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra", which Heston directed. Julius Caesar (1970 film) Julius Caesar is a 1970 British independent film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, directed by Stuart Burge from a screenplay by Robert Furnival. The film stars Charlton