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( Catalog Number CC1298L )
(2.35:1) (6 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (CC) (NTSC)

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Spartacus
1960 - 196 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated PG-13
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
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.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Brutus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinus Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Lentulus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the event, the enslaved trainees are "rewarded" with female companionship. Spartacus' companion for the evening is Varinia (Jean Simmons), a slave from Brittania. When Spartacus later learns that Varinia has been sold to Crassus, he leads 78 fellow gladiators in revolt. Word of the rebellion spreads like wildfire, and soon Spartacus' army numbers in the hundreds. Escaping to join his cause is Varinia, who has fallen in love with Spartacus, and another of Crassus' house slaves, the sensitive Antonius (Tony Curtis). The revolt becomes the principal cog in the wheel of a political struggle between Crassus and a more temperate senator named Gracchus (Charles Laughton). Anthony Mann was the original director of Spartacus, eventually replaced by Stanley Kubrick, who'd previously guided Douglas through Paths of Glory. The film received 4 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Ustinov. A crucial scene between Oliver and Curtis, removed from the 1967 reissue because of its subtle homosexual implications, was restored in 1991, with a newly recorded soundtrack featuring Curtis as his younger self and Anthony Hopkins standing in for the deceased Olivier. --- Hal Erickson

A remarkably expensive production for the time ($12m) that took 167 days to film, Spartacus has been lauded as the "thinking man's" epic because it lacks a happy ending and places as much emphasis on oration as action. The slave revolt storyline, penned in part by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, is clearly meant to parallel contemporary American political reality. The decadent Romans are grotesquely shaped versions of the Hollywood movie moguls gleefully leeching the talent, who come in the form of noble battling gladiators in the film. The optimistic liberal message is delivered with a heavy handed via speech spouting slaves, and led director Stanley Kubrick, who was not a big fan of the final product, to complain that the film "had everything but a good story." Kubrick was brought aboard after Kirk Douglas and the film's original director Anthony Mann clashed very early in the production. Although Douglas gives a strident and muscular performance, it is the supporting cast, led by Academy Award winner Peter Ustinov and Laurence Olivier who steal the picture. While it suffers from some of the flaws of epics of this era-such as an overly sanitized portrait of life at the time, and anachronistic visions of fashion and lifestyle-Spartacus also boasts some stirring action and intelligent dialogue. The final scenes of crucified rebel slaves lining the roads to Rome are unforgettably powerful. Propelled by Alex North's triumphant score and filmed in glorious "Super Technirama" 70mm, the wide screen format serves the stirring and spectacular action sequences, some of which used up to 8600 extras, very well. Oscars went to Ustinov, for best supporting actor, art direction, costume design and cinematography. --- Dan Jardine

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Cast for Spartacus

Kirk Douglas - Spartacus
Laurence Olivier - Marcus Licinius Crassus
Jean Simmons - Varinia
Charles Laughton - Lentulus Gracchus
Peter Ustinov - Lentulus Batiatus
John Gavin - Julius Caesar
Tony Curtis - Antoninus
Nina Foch - Helena Glabrus
Herbert Lom - Tigranes
John Ireland - Crixus
John Dall - Glabrus
Joanna Barnes - Claudia Marius
Harold J. Stone - David
Woody Strode - Draba
Peter Brocco - Ramon
Paul Lambert - Gannicus
Robert J. Wilke - Guard Captain
Nick Dennis - Dionysius
Johh Hoyt - Caius
Dayton Lummis - Symmachus
Larry Perron
Chuck Roberson - Slave
George Robotham
Eddie Parker
Gil Perkins - Slave Leader
Regis Parton
Leonard Penn - Garrison Officer
Frederic Worlock - Laelius
Lili Valenty - Old Crone
Ken Terrell
Jo Summers
Louise Vincent - Slave Girl
Wayne Van Horn
Dale Van Sickel - Trainer
Wally Rose - Gladiator
Russell Saunders
Aaron Saxon
Autumn Russell
Kay Stewart
Bob Stevenson - Legionnaire
Rube Schaffer - Soldier
Tom Steele
Carleton Young - Herald
Ted de Corsia
Dick Crockett
Chuck Courtney
Harold Goodwin
Terence de Marney - Major Domo
Seamon Glass
Sol (Saul) Gorss
Buff Brady
Jerry Brown
Arthur Batanides
Tap Canutt
Joe Canutt
Robert Burns
Paul E. Burns - Fimbria
Bob Morgan
Harold Kruger - Pirate
Jill Jarmyn - Julia
Charles Horvath
Charles McGraw - Marcellus
Carey Loftin - Guard
Cliff Lyons
James Griffith - Otho
Harry Harvey, Jr.
Joe Haworth - Marius
Brad Harris
Anthony Hopkins - Marcus Licinius Crassus (some scenes, 1991 restoratio
Hallene Hill - Beggar Woman
Vinton Haworth - Metallius
Chuck Hayward

Crew for Spartacus

Stanley Kubrick - Director
Edward Lewis - Producer
Howard Fast - Book Author
Dalton Trumbo - Screenwriter
Russell Metty - Cinematographer
Clifford Stine - Cinematographer
Alex North - Composer (Music Score) / Musical Direction/Supervision
Fred A. Chulack - Editor
Robert Lawrence - Editor
Robert Sculte - Editor
Alexander Golitzen - Production Designer
Kirk Douglas - Executive Producer
Joseph E. Gershenson - Musical Direction/Supervision
Russell A. Gausman - Set Designer
Julia Heron - Set Designer
Bill Thomas - Costume Designer
Arlington F. Valles - Costume Designer Irene Valles - Costume Designer
Bud Westmore - Makeup
Marshall Green - First Assistant Director
Vittorio Nino Novarese - Consultant/advisor
Harry L. Wolf - Camera Operator
Joe Lapis - Sound/Sound Designer
Waldon O. Watson - Sound/Sound Designer

Awards for Spartacus

Best Art Direction (win) Russell A. Gausman 1960 Academy
Best Art Direction (win) Alexander Golitzen 1960 Academy
Best Art Direction (win) Eric Orbom 1960 Academy
Best Art Direction (win) Julia Heron 1960 Academy
Best Cinematography (win) Russell Metty 1960 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Bill Thomas 1960 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Irene Valles 1960 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Robert Lawrence 1960 Academy
Best Score (nom) Alex North 1960 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (win) Peter Ustinov 1960 Academy
Best Actor - Drama (nom) Laurence Olivier 1960 Golden Globe
Best Director (nom) Stanley Kubrick 1960 Golden Globe
Best Original Score (nom) Alex North 1960 Golden Globe
Best Picture - Drama (win) 1960 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Woody Strode 1960 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Peter Ustinov 1960 Golden Globe

Feature Details

Title: Spartacus
Feature Release Date: 1960
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13
Color: Color
Runtime: 196 Minutes
Chapters: 73
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 8 Sep 1992
Catalog Number: CC1298L
UPC: 0715515002875
ISBN: 1-55940-242-3
Manufacturer: 3M or IMATION
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 6
Cover: Jacket
Closed Caption: English
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1298L
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov and Laurence Olivier in...

Spartacus

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1298L )
(2.35:1) (6 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (CC) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Audio commentary by Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov and others
Alternative ending
Production stills
Color Bars
See the History of Criterion LaserDiscs at DaDon's...
LaserDiscs

Spartacus
1960 - 196 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated PG-13
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
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.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Brutus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinus Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Lentulus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the event, the enslaved trainees are "rewarded" with female companionship. Spartacus' companion for the evening is Varinia (Jean Simmons), a slave from Brittania. When Spartacus later learns that Varinia has been sold to Crassus, he leads 78 fellow gladiators in revolt. Word of the rebellion spreads like wildfire, and soon Spartacus' army numbers in the hundreds. Escaping to join his cause is Varinia, who has fallen in love with Spartacus, and another of Crassus' house slaves, the sensitive Antonius (Tony Curtis). The revolt becomes the principal cog in the wheel of a political struggle between Crassus and a more temperate senator named Gracchus (Charles Laughton). Anthony Mann was the original director of Spartacus, eventually replaced by Stanley Kubrick, who'd previously guided Douglas through Paths of Glory. The film received 4 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Ustinov. A crucial scene between Oliver and Curtis, removed from the 1967 reissue because of its subtle homosexual implications, was restored in 1991, with a newly recorded soundtrack featuring Curtis as his younger self and Anthony Hopkins standing in for the deceased Olivier. --- Hal Erickson

A remarkably expensive production for the time ($12m) that took 167 days to film, Spartacus has been lauded as the "thinking man's" epic because it lacks a happy ending and places as much emphasis on oration as action. The slave revolt storyline, penned in part by the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo, is clearly meant to parallel contemporary American political reality. The decadent Romans are grotesquely shaped versions of the Hollywood movie moguls gleefully leeching the talent, who come in the form of noble battling gladiators in the film. The optimistic liberal message is delivered with a heavy handed via speech spouting slaves, and led director Stanley Kubrick, who was not a big fan of the final product, to complain that the film "had everything but a good story." Kubrick was brought aboard after Kirk Douglas and the film's original director Anthony Mann clashed very early in the production. Although Douglas gives a strident and muscular performance, it is the supporting cast, led by Academy Award winner Peter Ustinov and Laurence Olivier who steal the picture. While it suffers from some of the flaws of epics of this era-such as an overly sanitized portrait of life at the time, and anachronistic visions of fashion and lifestyle-Spartacus also boasts some stirring action and intelligent dialogue. The final scenes of crucified rebel slaves lining the roads to Rome are unforgettably powerful. Propelled by Alex North's triumphant score and filmed in glorious "Super Technirama" 70mm, the wide screen format serves the stirring and spectacular action sequences, some of which used up to 8600 extras, very well. Oscars went to Ustinov, for best supporting actor, art direction, costume design and cinematography. --- Dan Jardine

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Cast for Spartacus

Kirk Douglas - Spartacus
Laurence Olivier - Marcus Licinius Crassus
Jean Simmons - Varinia
Charles Laughton - Lentulus Gracchus
Peter Ustinov - Lentulus Batiatus
John Gavin - Julius Caesar
Tony Curtis - Antoninus
Nina Foch - Helena Glabrus
Herbert Lom - Tigranes
John Ireland - Crixus
John Dall - Glabrus
Joanna Barnes - Claudia Marius
Harold J. Stone - David
Woody Strode - Draba
Peter Brocco - Ramon
Paul Lambert - Gannicus
Robert J. Wilke - Guard Captain
Nick Dennis - Dionysius
Johh Hoyt - Caius
Dayton Lummis - Symmachus
Larry Perron
Chuck Roberson - Slave
George Robotham
Eddie Parker
Gil Perkins - Slave Leader
Regis Parton
Leonard Penn - Garrison Officer
Frederic Worlock - Laelius
Lili Valenty - Old Crone
Ken Terrell
Jo Summers
Louise Vincent - Slave Girl
Wayne Van Horn
Dale Van Sickel - Trainer
Wally Rose - Gladiator
Russell Saunders
Aaron Saxon
Autumn Russell
Kay Stewart
Bob Stevenson - Legionnaire
Rube Schaffer - Soldier
Tom Steele
Carleton Young - Herald
Ted de Corsia
Dick Crockett
Chuck Courtney
Harold Goodwin
Terence de Marney - Major Domo
Seamon Glass
Sol (Saul) Gorss
Buff Brady
Jerry Brown
Arthur Batanides
Tap Canutt
Joe Canutt
Robert Burns
Paul E. Burns - Fimbria
Bob Morgan
Harold Kruger - Pirate
Jill Jarmyn - Julia
Charles Horvath
Charles McGraw - Marcellus
Carey Loftin - Guard
Cliff Lyons
James Griffith - Otho
Harry Harvey, Jr.
Joe Haworth - Marius
Brad Harris
Anthony Hopkins - Marcus Licinius Crassus (some scenes, 1991 restoratio
Hallene Hill - Beggar Woman
Vinton Haworth - Metallius
Chuck Hayward

Crew for Spartacus

Stanley Kubrick - Director
Edward Lewis - Producer
Howard Fast - Book Author
Dalton Trumbo - Screenwriter
Russell Metty - Cinematographer
Clifford Stine - Cinematographer
Alex North - Composer (Music Score) / Musical Direction/Supervision
Fred A. Chulack - Editor
Robert Lawrence - Editor
Robert Sculte - Editor
Alexander Golitzen - Production Designer
Kirk Douglas - Executive Producer
Joseph E. Gershenson - Musical Direction/Supervision
Russell A. Gausman - Set Designer
Julia Heron - Set Designer
Bill Thomas - Costume Designer
Arlington F. Valles - Costume Designer Irene Valles - Costume Designer
Bud Westmore - Makeup
Marshall Green - First Assistant Director
Vittorio Nino Novarese - Consultant/advisor
Harry L. Wolf - Camera Operator
Joe Lapis - Sound/Sound Designer
Waldon O. Watson - Sound/Sound Designer

Awards for Spartacus

Best Art Direction (win) Russell A. Gausman 1960 Academy
Best Art Direction (win) Alexander Golitzen 1960 Academy
Best Art Direction (win) Eric Orbom 1960 Academy
Best Art Direction (win) Julia Heron 1960 Academy
Best Cinematography (win) Russell Metty 1960 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Bill Thomas 1960 Academy
Best Costume Design (nom) Irene Valles 1960 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Robert Lawrence 1960 Academy
Best Score (nom) Alex North 1960 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (win) Peter Ustinov 1960 Academy
Best Actor - Drama (nom) Laurence Olivier 1960 Golden Globe
Best Director (nom) Stanley Kubrick 1960 Golden Globe
Best Original Score (nom) Alex North 1960 Golden Globe
Best Picture - Drama (win) 1960 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Woody Strode 1960 Golden Globe
Best Supporting Actor (nom) Peter Ustinov 1960 Golden Globe

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