Factual error: Alexander's copy of Homer is a codex, or bound book, not invented for another 400 years or much used for 600 years.
Alexander the Great (1956)
1 factual error - chronological order
Directed by: Robert Rossen
Starring: Peter Cushing, Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Barry Jones
Continuity mistake: When Alexander pushes his wife onto the bed, she rips the Egyptian scarab ring off his finger and throws it across the room. And in the following shot, both of them still on the bed, is a close-up of her gently touching the same scarab ring - which is still on his finger.
Philip of Macedonia: Alexander. In your first act as regent, send your mother away.
Alexander: Exile my mother?
Philip of Macedonia: Back to her kinsman in Epirus, she'll be happy there.
Alexander: Is that the cost of my prove to you?
Philip of Macedonia: How do you think I came to power? My own two brothers.
Alexander: I know, you slew them, you want me to do that too?
Trivia: Danielle Darrieux plays Richard Burton's mother in this film. Darrieux (born 1917) was only eight years older than Burton (born 1925).
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