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Spartacus

Aspect Ratio: 2.20:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9780783226033
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783226039
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 31, 1998
Running Time: 196 minutes
Sales Rank: 5989
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: October 07, 1960

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Epic tale with deleted scenes trailer and much more. Subtitles in spanish. Dubbed in french. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/23/2007 Starring: Kirk Douglas Laurence Olivier Run time: 196 minutes Rating: Pg13

Amazon.com essential video:
Stanley Kubrick was only 31 years old when Kirk Douglas (star of Kubrick's classic Paths of Glory) recruited the young director to pilot this epic saga, in which the rebellious slave Spartacus (played by Douglas) leads a freedom revolt against the decadent Roman Empire. Kubrick would later disown the film because it was not a personal project--he was merely a director-for-hire--but Spartacus remains one of the best of Hollywood's grand historical epics. With an intelligent screenplay by then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo (from a novel by Howard Fast), its message of moral integrity and courageous conviction is still quite powerful, and the all-star cast (including Charles Laughton in full toga) is full of entertaining surprises. Fully restored in 1991 to include scenes deleted from the original 1960 release, the full-length Spartacus is a grand-scale cinematic marvel, offering some of the most awesome battles ever filmed and a central performance by Douglas that's as sensitively emotional as it is intensely heroic. Jean Simmons plays the slave woman who becomes Spartacus's wife, and Peter Ustinov steals the show with his frequently hilarious, Oscar-winning performance as a slave trader who shamelessly curries favor with his Roman superiors. The restored version also includes a formerly deleted bathhouse scene in which Laurence Olivier plays a bisexual Roman senator (with restored dialogue dubbed by Anthony Hopkins) who gets hot and bothered over a slave servant played by Tony Curtis. These and other restored scenes expand the film to just over three hours in length. Despite some forgivable lulls, this is a rousing and substantial drama that grabs and holds your attention. Breaking tradition with sophisticated themes and a downbeat (yet eminently noble) conclusion, Spartacus is a thinking person's epic, rising above mere spectacle with a story as impressive as its widescreen action and Oscar-winning sets. --Jeff Shannon




Rating: - A Parable For Today
The name Spartacus has a long and honorable history in the annals of the modern international labor ... Read More

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Rating: - Well-made Epic but very Fictionalized
Spartacus is a well made epic from the days when Hollywood specialized in Roman epics. It presents ... Read More

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Rating: - Non-anamorphic widescreen
If you have a widescreen TV, get the criterion version. This version sports new packaging, but it's ... Read More

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Rating: - Great Movie - Inaccurate History
Entertaining film, well worth the time. But Hollywood history. To begin with Sparticus was a Roman not ... Read More

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Rating: - Words fail me
I'm one of those people who cries easily in movies. I cry at sad parts, I cry at happy parts, I have no ... Read More

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