Cleopatra (1963)

Ben Wright: Narrator

Quotes 

• [Last lines. Following Cleopatra's suicide] 

  Agrippa : Was this well done of your lady?

  High Priestess : Extremely well. As befitting the last of so many noble rulers.

  Narrator : [Repeating the previous lines]  And the Roman asked, "Was this well done of your lady?" And the servant answered, "Extremely well. As befitting the last of so many noble rulers."

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : And so it fell out that at Pharsalia, the great might and manhood of Rome met in bloody civil war, and Caesar's legions destroyed those of the great Pompey... So, that now only Caesar stood at the head of Rome. But, there was no joy for Caesar as in his other triumphs... for the dead which his legions counted and buried and burned were their own countrymen.