The Notorious Cleopatra
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The Notorious Cleopatra is a grossly inaccurate sexploitation film, made in 1970 by Harry Novak. In this version Cleopatra is stabbed to death in her tub by Mark Antony.
This film has little relation to history, instead it is farce that puts history though a blender. Julius Caesar is portrayed as a fat drunken slob who dispatches Mark Antony to bring Cleopatra, played by a black actress, back to Rome. Cleopatra in disguise with her servant visits Rome and sneaks into one of Caesar's orgies. Later Mark Anthony falls under Cleopatra's spell, murders Caesar and later in a jealous rage murders Cleopatra in her tub. He then commits suicide. Shakespeare it is not, but it does have a lot gratuitous nudity.
This movie is available from Something Weird Video on a DVD with The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet (1969).
