'Spartacus' (1960): A Bryna Production. Director - Stanley Kubrick. "You have no ships..."

'Spartacus' is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Dalton Trumbo, and based on the 1951 novel of the same title by Howard Fast. It is inspired by the life story of Spartacus, the leader of a slave revolt in antiquity, and the events of the Third Servile War, and stars Kirk Douglas in the title role, Laurence Olivier as Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus, Peter Ustinov, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, as slave trader Lentulus Batiatus, John Gavin as Julius Caesar, Jean Simmons as Varinia, Charles Laughton as Sempronius Gracchus, and Tony Curtis as Antoninus.
Douglas, whose company Bryna Productions was producing the film, removed original director Anthony Mann after the first week of shooting. Kubrick, with whom Douglas had worked before, was brought on board to take over direction. It was the only film directed by Kubrick where he did not have complete artistic control. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted at the time as one of the Hollywood Ten. Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus, and President-elect John F. Kennedy crossed American Legion picket lines to view the film, helping to end blacklisting;] Howard Fast was also blacklisted, and originally had to self-publish it.
The film won four Academy Awards and became the biggest moneymaker in Universal Studios' history, until it was surpassed by Airport (1970). In 2017, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Vale Kirk Douglas.

[@mrvillan6951]

"Where men of substance like you are welcome and appreciated......"
The script is magnificent. Full of brilliantly crafted lines like that.

[@yellowflower2067]

This movie made me cry. Ugh!!! He chose to stay and die for not just his way of life, but for his people. It made me want to root for him throughout the movie. And his death in the end made me cry way too much.

[@coldste]

Exactly as a true leader should do, personally I was rooting for Crassus and the Romans, but Spartacus definitely earned my respect

[@charleswest6372]

Yes...brave soul was he.

[@albertthamby3177]

4:27 Go away. That's a real leader. Rejecting his personal comforts to be with his followers.

[@stutzbearcat5624]

Love how Roman Slaves were all rocking perfect 1959 coiffures!
Did their stylists march with them?

[@JohnDoe-yq9rt]

Hi Ralph

[@darksuperboy]

I still don't get his choice tactically better to take on 1 Army at a Time then surrounded by 3.

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

@Darksuperboy He was pretty much doomed once Pompey's veterans landed at Rhegium, because now the Romans were taking him seriously as a threat and no longer deploying militias and inexperienced consular armies against Spartacus. Sooner or later the Rebels were getting annihilated, whether they turned North, South, East or West.

[@Db64o]

Spartacus :la storia..

[@arthur131313]

Nice jeans on Curtis

[@stevewalton5698]

What do you think general??
Go away 💀💀

[@scottwalker2980]

there is another option...take brundusium and declare it a rebel city, call for allies across the empire.

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