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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 that helps make SPARTACUS one of the finest costume epics to ever come out of Hollywood.
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Kirk Douglas,
Laurence Olivier,
Jean Simmons,
Charles Laughton,
Peter Ustinov,
John Gavin,
Nina Foch,
John Ireland,
Herbert Lom,
John Dall,
Charles McGraw,
Joanna Barnes,
Harold Stone,
Woody Strode,
Peter Brocco,
Paul Lambert,
Robert J. Wilke,
Nick Dennis,
John Hoyt,
Frederick Worlock,
Tony Curtis,
Chuck Courtney,
Dick Crockett,
Johnny Duncan,
Roy Engel,
Richard Farnsworth,
Seamon Glass,
Harold Goodwin,
Sol Gorss,
James Griffith,
Harry Harvey Jr.,
Joe Haworth,
Vinton Haworth,
Chuck Hayward,
Charles Horvath,
Aron Kincaid,
Stubby Kruger,
Carey Loftin,
Dayton Lummis,
Cliff Lyons,
Arthur Batanides,
Gordon Mitchell,
Bob Morgan,
Boyd 'Red' Morgan,
Eddie Parker,
Harvey Parry,
Regis Parton,
Leonard Penn,
Gil Perkins,
Vic Perrin,
Bill Raisch,
Chuck Roberson,
George Robotham,
Russell Saunders,
Charles Schaeffer,
Jim Sears,
Tom Steele,
Bill Blackburn,
Robert Stevenson,
Ken Terrell,
Dale Van Sickel,
Carleton Young,
Ted de Corsia,
Terence de Marney,
Buff Brady,
Rudy Bukich,
Bob Burns,
Paul E. Burns,
Joe Canutt,
Tap Canutt,
Al Carmichael,
Hallene Hill,
Jil Jarmyn,
Valley Keene,
Autumn Russell,
Jo Summers,
Louise Vincent
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