Spartacus (Blu-ray) PG-13

They trained him to kill for their pleasure ... but they trained him a little too well
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 3 hours, 17 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: October 15, 2019
  • Originally Released: 1960
  • Label: Universal Studios

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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

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 77,982
Rating: 4/5 -- Asurprisingly apt companion piece to Paths of Glory in its consideration of the mechanisms of power. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006
Rating: 3.5/4 -- An epic that engages the intellect as well as the eyes and the emotions. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Oct 17, 2015
Rating: 2.5/4 -- ...a passable historical epic that has little in common with the rest of Kubrick's output... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Nov 18, 2014
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. Full Review
Esquire Magazine
Feb 10, 2019
...One of the last truly great Roman epics, the Kirk Douglas-starrer boasts a true cast-of-thousands battle...
Total Film
Mar 1, 2001
Rating: 4/5 -- Douglas is terrific as the iron-jawed slave fuelled by righteous fury. Full Review
Times (UK)
Jun 12, 2009
A truly epic production with massive battles, iconic cinematography, and a legendary cast...
Premiere
May 24, 2010

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.

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