SWORDS AND SAND(ALS)

ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1956)

A classic that follows the life and conquests of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king, starring Richard Burton ("Cleopatra", "Anne of the Thousand Days").

Ladies, hold your breaths for:

* Young (and blond) Richard Burton (b. 1925)

SWORDS AND SAND(ALS)

ALEXANDER (2004)

Fortune favors the bold.

Official Warner Bros. site

Alexander, the King of Macedonia (Colin Farrell, "American Outlaws") and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world. With Angelina Jolie ("True Women", "Beowulf") as Alexander mother, Olympias, Rosario Dawson his wife, Roxane, and Jared Leto as his childhood friend and male erotic love interest, Hephaistion.

Ladies, hold your breaths for SIX STARS:

* Blond Colin Farrell (b. 1976)

* Disfigured Val Kilmer (b. 1959, "Willow", Billy the Kid", "Tombstone", "George and the Dragon") as Philip

* Long-haired Jared Leto (b. 1971, "My So-Called Life")

* Jonathan Rhys Meyers (b. 1977, "The Tudors", "The Governess", "Ride with the Devil", "Sampson and Delilah", "The Lion in Winter"), also sporting long mane, as Cassander

* Blond Neil Jackson (b. 1976) as Perdiccas

* The quintessential tall, dark and handsome Gary Stretch (b. 1968) as Cleitus