Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
Writing
Gags-per-minute ratio that would kill lesser screenwriters
Acting
Kenneth Williams' Caesar: camp, imperious, and barely holding it together
Costume
Drapery budget clearly went to the script's innuendo instead
Director
Gerald Thomas
Sidney James
Mark Antony
Kenneth Williams
Julius Caesar
Kenneth Connor
Centurion Hengist Pod
Charles Hawtrey
Seneca
Joan Sims
Calpurnia
Jim Dale
Horsa
Amanda Barrie
Cleopatra
Victor Maddern
Sergeant-Major
Julie Stevens
Gloria
Sheila Hancock
Senna Pod
Jon Pertwee
Soothsayer
Francis de Wolff
Agrippa
Michael Ward
Archimedes
Brian Oulton
Brutus
Tom Clegg
Sosages
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Elizabeth Taylor's lawyers threatened to sue over the poster parodying her Cleopatra—the Carry On team simply made the parody even more obvious.
This was the highest-grossing Carry On film, proving 1964 audiences were absolutely desperate to see Julius Caesar say 'infamy' repeatedly.
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