Spartacus

Synopsis: In 73 BCE, a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus, Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an army against the slaves who are living on Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor, Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus is greatly embarrassed and leads his own army against the slaves. Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves successfully make their way to Brandisium only to find that the Silesians have abandoned them. They then turn north and must face the might of Rome.

Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Director(s): Stanley Kubrick

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton

Production: Universal Pictures

Won 4 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 11 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.9
Metacritic:: 87
Rotten Tomatoes:: 96%

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: PASSED
Year:: 1960
: 197 min
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In the last century
before the birth...
of the new faith
called Christianity...
which was destined to overthrow
the pagan tyranny of Rome...
and bring about a new society...
the Roman republic stood at the very
centre of the civilized world.
"Of all things fairest. "
sang the poet...
"first among cities and
home of the gods is golden Rome. "
Yet even at the zenith
of her pride and power...
the Republic lay fatally stricken
with a disease called...
human slavery.
The age of the dictator
was at hand...
waiting in the shadows
for the event to bring it forth.
In that same century...
in the conquered
Greek province of Thrace...
an illiterate slave woman
added to her master's wealth...
by giving birth to a son
whom she named Spartacus.
A proud. rebellious son...
who was sold to living death
in the mines of Libya...
before his thirteenth birthday.
There. under whip
and chain and sun...
he lived out his youth
and his young manhood...
dreaming the death of slavery...
before it finally would die.
Back to work!
Get up, Spartacus,
you Thracian dog!
Come on, get up!
My ankle, my ankle!
My ankle!
Spartacus again?
This time he dies.
Back to work, all of you!
- Welcome, Lentulus Batiatus.
- Welcome, indeed, my dear captain.
Eleven miles
through the disastrous heat...
and the cost
of hiring an escort-- ruinous.
Even so, I warrant you have nothing
fiit to sell me, have you, Captain?
I've wasted my time and my money.
Tell me the truth.
I think we have a few
you might be interested in.
What, these? Carrion!
The buzzards are late.
This one here's not bad.
He's a Gaul.
I don't like Gauls. Hairy.
-Can he come down from there unassisted?
-Come down, you!
Come down!
Be good enough
to show me the teeth.
- Open your mouth!
- Thank you.
Yes. As the teeth go,
so go the bones.
This mouth is
really impermissible.
- The fellow's made of chalk.
- We have others. Many others!
The sun's over there.
I have to pay these people.
Who's that?
This one's a Thracian.
I'm making an example of him.
- How?
- Starve him to death.
It's the only thing impresses slaves.
What a pity.
He reacts. Good muscle tone.
Can I see his teeth?
Open your mouth, Spartacus!
You smell like a rhinoceros.
Captain, you asked him to open
his mouth. He doesn't obey you?
His teeth are
the best thing about him.
He hamstrung a guard with them
not more than an hour ago.
Hamstrung? How marvellous!
I wish I'd been here.
I'll take him.
Let's look at some of the others.
Come along!
In spite of sickness and death,
we will profiit 11,000 sesterces!
Including your commission,
of course.
No, sir.
Without my commission.
Marcellus, there they are.
They're a dirty-looking lot,
but it's the best I could fiind.
No one else could have made
so fiine a choice.
Slaves...
you have arrived at the gladiatorial
school of Lentulus Batiatus.
Here you will be trained by experts
to fiight in pairs to the death.
Obviously, you won't be required
to fiight to the death here.
That will only be
after you've been sold...
and then for ladies
and gentlemen of quality...
those who appreciate
a fiine kill.
A gladiator's like a stallion:
He must be pampered.
You'll be oiled, bathed...
shaved, massaged,
taught to use your heads.
A good body with a dull brain
is as cheap as life itself!
You'll be given
your ceremonial caudas.
Marcellus, please. There.
Be proud of them.
On certain special occasions,
those of you who please me...
will even be given
the companionship of a young lady.
Approximately half our graduates...
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Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of communist influences in the motion picture industry. He, along with the other members of the Hollywood Ten and hundreds of other industry professionals, was subsequently blacklisted by that industry. His talents as one of the top screenwriters allowed him to continue working clandestinely, producing work under other authors' names or pseudonyms. His uncredited work won two Academy Awards: for Roman Holiday (1953), which was given to a front writer, and for The Brave One (1956) which was awarded to a pseudonym of Trumbo's. When he was given public screen credit for both Exodus and Spartacus in 1960, this marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood Blacklist for Trumbo and other screenwriters. He finally was given full credit by the Writers' Guild for all his achievements, the work of which encompassed six decades of screenwriting. more…

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