Spartacus

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-10-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

197 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(91559 Reviews)

Director:

Stanley Kubrick

Genres:

Adventure Biography Drama

Cast:

Kirk Douglas Laurence Olivier Jean Simmons Charles Laughton

Writer:

Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)

Howard Fast (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

In 73 BCE, a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus, Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an army against the slaves who are living on Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor, Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus is greatly embarrassed and leads his own army against the slaves. Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves successfully make their way to Brandisium only to find that the Silesians have abandoned them. They then turn north and must face the might of Rome.

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