THE SON OF CLEOPATRA is a desert-set peplum starring Mark Damon, later a standby both in Italy and America. It's less a follow-up to CLEOPATRA and more inspired by LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, I feel, with a lot of desert-set feuding and battles between the tribes. The plot is quite workmanlike and there's none of the grandeur you'd expect given our hero's parents. If you're looking for action you can forget it too as aside from a few half-hearted moments there's little on display here.
