AlexandertheGreat: Directed by Robert Rossen. With Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Barry Jones. Philip of Macedonia's son wants to rule the fourth-century B.C. world.
Fierce military commander, magnificent warrior, world conqueror. Legendary Macedonian hero AlexandertheGreat is celebrated in this definitive film about his tumultuous life. Richard Burton, Fredric March and Claire Bloom lead a…
The novel, which resists the temptation to portray Alexander in the mantle of purely romantic legend, covers his life from age fifteen to his death at age thirty-two.
The remainder of it is the product of subsequent tradition, a tradition that was evidently in vigorous development already within a few years of Alexander's death.'