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A pre-code film that sneaked onto screens just as the censorious Hays Office began cracking down on Hollywood's racier propositions, Cleopatra is a libertine paean to decadence and depravity that can still send a viewer's mind reeling and pulse thumping -- all courtesy of the Golden Age's swampiest psychosexual auteur, Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments; The Greatest Show on Earth; The King of Kings). Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night; The Palm Beach Story; Drums Along the Mohawk) presides over the most outrageous spectacle this side of The Scarlet Empress as the eponymous pharaoh queen who speeds from Julius Caesar (Warren William) to Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon), from Egypt to Rome, from war-room to bedroom... The whiff of incense permeates every scene, with each connected to the next in a veritable matrix of whips, blindfolds, and bindings -- the crazed arrangement laying bare all the fetish inklings of the moving-picture dream. Lavishly produced with some of the most inspired waxing-moon photography and unwholesome set-design to come out of the studio system, DeMille's film is an erotic tour-de-force that obliges us to re-examine the appeal of this most popular of Hollywood directors. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Cleopatra for the very first time on Blu-ray, in a Dual Format (Blu-ray + DVD) edition, released in the UK on 24 September 2012. Also available as a limited edition Dual Format SteelBook.
Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Scott Eastwood, Michael Pena star in this action war drama taking place in 1945 in the European Theatre. This is the first trailer in HD.
A Red Cross bus transporting 30 Palestinian detainees leaves the Ofer prison, in latest exchange amid a fragile Hamas-Israel truce. As the latest group of Israeli hostages was released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a source close to the Islamist militant group said it was willing to extend the truce that has paused weeks of deadly fighting and enabled aid to reach Gaza civilians. Israel had yet to respond. IMAGES
Dozens of Israelis wave Israeli flags and cheer as they await the passage of the convoy transporting six released hostages from Gaza, near Ofakim, in southern Israel. IMAGES
A Red Cross convoy transporting released hostages arrives at the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, on their way to Egypt. The armed wing of Hamas said six Israelis had been handed over to the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip in the latest release, after two women were released earlier, which the militant group said "completed" the seventh handover of hostages under the truce deal. IMAGES
A Red Cross convoy transporting released hostages crosses Rafah border towards Egypt. Six Israeli hostages held in Gaza were "on their way" back to Israel, the army said, citing information received from the Red Cross, hours before a truce extension was due to expire. IMAGES
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