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Spartacus [2 Discs] [Criterion Collection]

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Spartacus [2 Discs] [Criterion... DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Jerry Brown, Paul E. Burns, Chuck Courtney, Dick Crockett, Arthur Batanides, Buff Brady, Ted de Corsia, Terence de Marney, Seamon Glass, Sol (Saul) Gorss, James Griffith, Brad Harris, Harry Harvey, Jr., Joe Haworth, Vinton Haworth, Chuck Hayward, Hallene Hill, Charles Horvath, Cliff Lyons, Charles McGraw, Bob Morgan, Eddie Parker, Harvey Parry, Regis Parton, Leonard Penn, Gil Perkins, Larry Perron, Chuck Roberson, Autumn Russell, Russell Saunders, Aaron Saxon, Jill Jarmyn, Tom Steele, Bob Stevenson, Kay Stewart, Ken Terrell, Lili Valenty, Dale Van Sickel, Louise Vincent, Frederic Worlock, Carleton Young, Joe Canutt, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Loftin, Wayne Van Horn, George Robotham, Wally Rose, Harold Kruger, Rube Schaffer, Tap Canutt, Jo Summers, Bob Burns, Harold Goodwin, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, John Gavin, Nina Foch, Herbert Lom, John Ireland, John Dall, Joanna Barnes, Harold J. Stone, Woody Strode, Peter Brocco, Paul L

Director(s): Stanley Kubrick

Features:
Disc 1:
16x9 transfer of the 1991 fully restored Super Technirama version
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround soundtrack
Audio commentary by producer-actor Kirk Douglas, actor Peter Ustinov, novelist Howard Fast, producer Edward Lewis, restoration expert Robert A. Harris, and designer Saul Bass
Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's scene-by-scene analysis
Additional Alex North score compositions
English subtitles
Restoration demonstration
Disc 2:
Rare deleted scenes
Vintage newsreel footage
1960 promotional interviews with Jean Simmons and Peter Ustinov; 1992 video interview with Peter Ustinov
Behind-the-scenes "Gladiatorial School" footage
1960 documentary "The Hollywood Ten" plus archival documents about the blacklist
Original storyboards by Saul Bass
Hundreds of production stills, lobby cards, posters, print ads, and a comic book
Sketches by director Stanley Kubrick
Original theatrical trailer
Stereo
2.2:1 aspect ratio

Spartacus [2 Discs] [Criterion... DVD Details

Video:
2.20:1
Audio:
5 full-range channels. Includes 3 for the front speakers, 2 surround channels for rear speakers, & 1 low-frequency effects (LFE) channel to carry deep bass effects
PCM stereo
PCM mono
Language:
English

Running Time: 196
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 2
UPC: 715515011723
Product Code: CRRN1568DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1960
Studio: Criterion

Spartacus [2 Discs] [Criterion... DVD Summary Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators.

For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' 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 Antoninus (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 Olivier 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.