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Released
1953 · FILM

Julius Caesar

When Julius Caesar's growing power threatens Rome, his close friend Brutus is swayed by Cassius to join a deadly conspiracy, but they soon learn that underestimating Mark Antony could cost them everything.

MGM's acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Runtime
121 min
DramaHistory

Synopsis

Julius Caesar's rising ambition becomes a significant worry for his close friend Brutus. Cassius convinces Brutus to join his conspiracy to assassinate Caesar, but both men have greatly underestimated Mark Antony.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John D DunningShot by Joseph RuttenbergScored by Miklos Rozsa

Box Office

1953 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.0× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.9M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$3.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Julio Césares
  • Jules Césarfr
  • Giulio Cesareit

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