THE story of Cleopatra is a story of crime.<br /><br />It is a narrative of the course and the consequences of unlawful love.<br /><br />In her strange and romantic history we see this passion portrayed with the most complete and graphic fidelity in all its influences and effects; its uncontrollable impulses, its intoxicating joys, its reckless and mad career, and the dreadful remorse and ultimate despair and ruin in which it always and inevitably ends.