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...director decided to shoot both endings. The first exit-Bergman flying off with Henreid-left Bogart looking so good and noble and selfless that the second ending was never filmed. Though Bogart lost the girl, he did win Claude Rains and one of the most famous fadeout lines in cinema: "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...
...Cinema 1--J. Men Forever...
...Cinema 2--Alice in Wonderland...
...Cinema 3--The Harder They Come
This is not the first time that Caesar and cinema have met. Of the roughly 400 silent films adapted from Shakespeare's plays between 1899 and 1929, there are ten versions of Caesar, the first being a French effort of 1907. In the half century since 1929, about 50 sound films have been made, including three of Caesar, all American. The straightforward 1953 version, directed by Joseph Mankiewicz--with James Mason's Brutus, John Gielgud's Cassius. Marlon Brando's Antony, and the late Louis Calhern's Caesar--remains the only excellent Shakespearean film ever done in our country...