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Spartacus

Cast

Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton View All


Crew

Stanley Kubrick (Director), Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Peter Ustinov (Screenplay) View All

Release: Oct. 6th, 1960
Runtime: 3 hours, 17 minutes
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
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Spartacus (1960) Director: Stanley Kubrick Writers: Dalton Trumbo(screenplay), Howard Fast(novel) Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov Genre: Adventure, Drama Length: 3h 17mi.
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mark f
Since Spartacus is seen by some viewers as less than a pure Kubrick film, a group of film buffs deign it to be less significant, entertaining and absorbing than his other films, but I've never understood that.
Iroquois
I'm still working through Kubrick's filmography - still have to watch most of his pre-Lolita work at this point - and I figured that Spartacus would be interesting because of its notorious reputation for being a mainstream Hollywood epic filmed by an idiosyncratic auteur like Kubrick.


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