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Spartacus (1960) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 31, 1998
• R2: 27 Nov 2000
Budget $12,000,000
Running Time
3 hours, 4 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Bryna Productions
Studio Bryna Productions, Universal
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Other Titles
• Spartacus (1960)
• Spartacus: Rebel Against Rome
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Genre: Action, Romance, War, Drama, Epic, Period Piece, Society, Pirate, Biography, Tragedy, Martial Arts, Murder, Betrayal, Escape
Tagline: They trained him to kill for their pleasure. . .but they trained him a little too well. . .
Plot: SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 B.C. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains his entire life. After being forced to put on a gladiator show--that almost leads to his death--for wealthy Romans (including a marvelously conniving Laurence Olivier as the power-hungry Crassus), Spartacus leads a slave revolt across Italy that soon has thousands marching on Rome. Meanwhile, he has fallen in love with the beautiful Varinia (an effervescent Jean Simmons), pledging his life to her.Douglas assembled a fabulous all-star cast for the film; in addition to himself, Simmons, and Olivier, terrific performances are turned in by Charles Laughton as the curmudgeonly senator Gracchus, John Gavin as the young Julius Caesar, Tony Curtis as Antoninus (a "singer of songs," with all lines delivered in a beautifully thick New York accent), and especially Peter Ustinov, an Oscar winner for his portrayal of the businessman Batiatus, who always wants to know what's in it for him. Blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo's melodramatic script and Alex North's thrilling, soaring score add a majesty
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| Cast |
Kirk Douglas
Paths of Glory, Out of the Past, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea |
 | Jean Simmons
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Howl's Moving Castle, Great Expectations |
 | | Charles Laughton
Witness for the Prosecution, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Hunchback of Notre Dame | | John Gavin
Psycho, Imitation of Life, Thoroughly Modern Millie | Nina Foch
The Ten Commandments, Sliver, An American in Paris | |
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Alex North
Good Morning, Vietnam, A Streetcar Named Desire, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
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