9/25/2023 0 Comments Spartacus (film)![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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.
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