Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that aims to give the Bard's original stage play an epic visual flair. The plot centers on Marc Antony's ambitions to control Rome while continuing an affair with the Egyptian queen (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. He is now being coerced into marrying the sister of his Roman co-leader, and the situation quickly escalates into war.