Julius Caesar (1953)

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

I used to do, for laughs, an exaggerated impersonation of Marlon Brando, as the sort of street-tough he plays in On the Waterfront, uttering the immortal words of the Bard:

When that the poor hath cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brutus says that Caesar was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.

It was an eas…