Spartacus
by Anthony Mann, Stanley Kubrick
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Actor: Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter UstinovDirector: Anthony Mann, Stanley Kubrick
Brand: Universal
Writer: Peter Ustinov
Producer: Edward Lewis
Producer: James C. Katz
Writer: Calder Willingham
Writer: Dalton Trumbo
Writer: Howard Fast
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.20:1
Running Time: 196 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-03-31
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Spartacus
Movie Review: A Bit Long, But A Solid Epic Which Looks Better Each Time
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a solid adventure story that keeps looking better and better with each succeeding DVD. The excellent Criterion version was the last. Next up, I hope, is a solid Blu-Ray version.
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The story is a no-nonsense dramatic tale of a slave who leads a revolt against Rome, is successful in building the movement from almost nothing to an army of thousands, only to be beaten and literally crucified in the end.....but leaving his mark, to use a clich?, on history.
The prelude to the final battle scene is awesome-looking when you see all the soldiers lined up. I liked the fact they didn't overdo the action scenes, which they could easily have done since they employed a cast of thousands. On the other hand, they could have cut down on the overall length of the movie which was over three hours long. At two-and-a-half hours this would have been a much tighter script and easier to view.
Kirk Douglas, as "Spartacus," the leader of that revolt, was excellent and Peter Ustinov shines, too. The dialog given Ustinov and Charles Laughton was intelligent. This movie also featured the acting talents of Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis and John Gavin. Not bad, eh?
Summary of Spartacus
Epic tale with deleted scenes trailer and much more. Subtitles in spanish. Dubbed in french. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/23/2007 Starring: Kirk Douglas Laurence Olivier Run time: 196 minutes Rating: Pg13Stanley Kubrick was only 31 years old when Kirk Douglas (star of Kubrick's classic Paths of Glory) recruited the young director to pilot this epic saga, in which the rebellious slave Spartacus (played by Douglas) leads a freedom revolt against the decadent Roman Empire. Kubrick would later disown the film because it was not a personal project--he was merely a director-for-hire--but Spartacus remains one of the best of Hollywood's grand historical epics. With an intelligent screenplay by then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo (from a novel by Howard Fast), its message of moral integrity and courageous conviction is still quite powerful, and the all-star cast (including Charles Laughton in full toga) is full of entertaining surprises. Fully restored in 1991 to include scenes deleted from the original 1960 release, the full-length Spartacus is a grand-scale cinematic marvel, offering some of the most awesome battles ever filmed and a central performance by Douglas that's as sensitively emotional as it is intensely heroic. Jean Simmons plays the slave woman who becomes Spartacus's wife, and Peter Ustinov steals the show with his frequently hilarious, Oscar-winning performance as a slave trader who shamelessly curries favor with his Roman superiors. The restored version also includes a formerly deleted bathhouse scene in which Laurence Olivier plays a bisexual Roman senator (with restored dialogue dubbed by Anthony Hopkins) who gets hot and bothered over a slave servant played by Tony Curtis. These and other restored scenes expand the film to just over three hours in length. Despite some forgivable lulls, this is a rousing and substantial drama that grabs and holds your attention. Breaking tradition with sophisticated themes and a downbeat (yet eminently noble) conclusion, Spartacus is a thinking person's epic, rising above mere spectacle with a story as impressive as its widescreen action and Oscar-winning sets. --Jeff Shannon
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