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Spartacus
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Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton View AllCrew
Stanley Kubrick (Director), Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Peter Ustinov (Screenplay) View All
Release: Oct. 6th, 1960
Runtime: 3 hours, 17 minutes
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Spartacus
SPARTACUS (1960)
How do you begin to choose a masterpiece from a back catalogue as prominent as Stanley Kubricks? With such creative works as the provocative ‘A Clockwork Orange’, the...
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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.

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.

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.