It makes me curious if Elizabeth Taylor may have seen this film before accepting a similar part a year later, because I doubt she’d have benefited much from what’s presented here—a rather stiff portrayal of this fascinating historical figure. The difficulties of co-ruling with her brother, "Ptolemy," played with energy by Corrado Pani, become too great, and so the plotting Theodotus (Ennio Balbo) decides to try for a…