Movie Trailer for Spartacus (1960) starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Nina Foch, John Ireland, Herbert Lom, Tony Curtis directed by Stanley Kubrick Movie Review

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Trailer for Spartacus

Having been raised as a slave Spartacus (Kirk Douglas - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) finds himself being saved from death when slave trader Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov - Logan's Run) buys him and takes him to his gladiator school to be trained as a fighter. It is whilst there that Spartacus not only learns the skills of a fighter but falls for fellow slave Varinia (Jean Simmons). But when first general of the republic Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier) buys her it leads to Spartacus leading his fellow gladiators in an uprising, an uprising which leads to Spartacus leading a legion of slaves on a journey across Italy looking to escape from the Roman Empire. But Spartacus's army of slaves doesn't go unnoticed at the Senate where there is a power struggle between First senator Sempronius Gracchus (Charles Laughton) and first general Crassus, leading Crassus to devise a plan to stop Spartacus in his march for freedom. ... Read Review


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