Spartacus (Blu-ray, 50th Anniversary Edition) PG-13
They trained him to kill for their pleasure ... but they trained him a little too well
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 3 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 25, 2010
- Originally Released: 1960
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons & Tony Curtis | |
Performer: | John Gavin & Nina Foch | |
Directed by | Stanley Kubrick | |
Edited by | Robert Lawrence | |
Screenwriting by | Dalton Trumbo | |
Composition by | Alex North | |
Produced by | Edward Lewis | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Metty |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Cinematography: Russell Metty
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Costume Design (Color): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1960 -
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Ustinov
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Douglas is terrific as the iron-jawed slave fuelled by righteous fury.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Asurprisingly apt companion piece to Paths of Glory in its consideration of the mechanisms of power.
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Time Out
This may be the most literate of all the spectacles set in antiquity.
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Chicago Reader
Like a fast back with plenty of power, Kubrick twists and plunges. But he goes down on the twenty-yard line under the sheer weight of the opposition.
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Esquire Magazine
Rating: 2.5/5 --
It is a spotty, uneven drama.
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
The most courageous thing about it, from today's standards, is that it closes without an obligatory happy ending, and an audience that has watched for 187 minutes doesn't get a tidy, mindless conclusion.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Laurence Olivier memorably portrays a subtle, ruthless aristocrat who vows to destroy the gladiatorial army.
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Maclean's Magazine
Product Description:
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.
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.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Big Battles
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Classic
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Slavery
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War
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Heroes
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Epic
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Recommended
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Period Piece
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Ancient World
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema