Spartacus

    Spartacus
    1960

    Synopsis

    The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

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    Cast

    • Kirk DouglasSpartacus
    • Laurence OlivierMarcus Licinius Crassus
    • Jean SimmonsVarinia
    • Charles LaughtonSempronius Gracchus
    • Peter UstinovLentulus Batiatus
    • John GavinJulius Caesar
    • Tony CurtisAntoninus
    • Nina FochHelena Glabrus
    • John IrelandCrixus
    • Herbert LomTigranes Levantus

    Recommandations

    • 100

      Variety

      There is solid dramatic substance, purposeful and intriguingly contrasted character portrayals and, let's come right out with it, sheer pictorial poetry that is sweeping and savage, intimate and lusty, tender and bitter sweet.
    • 100

      Empire

      Spartacus' merry rabble swarms across country to face a Roman army that, seen from a distance, resembles either a group of ants moving in perfect formation or living chessboard squares marching in order — an unbeatable, fascist machine. It's a breathtaking moment, which forces you to realise that Kubrick (before CGI) had to command extras as rigidly as Crassus runs Rome.
    • 100

      TV Guide Magazine

      Spartacus is still a remarkable epic--one of the greatest tales of the ancient world ever to hit the screen. It's especially strong, and more typical of Kubrick, in the first half--before satire gives way to sentiment.
    • 100

      The Guardian

      A stirring classic.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      The one scene with a hint of the eccentrically detached brilliance that would come to define ”Stanley Kubrick Movies” is the climactic battle, in which marching blocks of Roman soldiers are mowed down by fire: It’s war as the greatest halftime show ever choregraphed. Until then, Spartacus envelops you in the sort of bedazzled hero worship Hollywood never quite managed to bring off this rousingly again.
    • 90

      The Telegraph

      It's hard to conceive of a sword-and-sandals epic with greater sweep or grandeur than Spartacus...For majestic, mind-blowing sequences, you're spoilt for choice.
    • 90

      Chicago Reader

      This may be the most literate of all the spectacles set in antiquity.
    • 80

      Time Out London

      Needless to say, the film’s big Brit hitters – Peter Ustinov, Laurence Olivier and especially Charles Laughton – all make exceptional work of Dalton Trumbo’s reflective screenplay, while Kubrick himself handles the film’s mechanics of corruption with skill.

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