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Spartacus

Spartacus is a 1960 film by Stanley Kubrick based on the historical novel of the same name by Howard Fast. The film stars Kirk Douglas as rebellious slave Spartacus and Laurence Olivier as his rival, Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus. John Gavin (Julius Caesar), Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, Herbert Lom, Woody Strode, Tony Curtis, John Dall and Charles McGraw are also featured. The titles were designed by Saul Bass.

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:07:30

ln the last century
before the birth...

:07:33

of the new faith
called Christianity...

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which was destined to overthrow
the pagan tyranny of Rome...

:07:38

and bring about a new society...

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the Roman republic stood at the very
centre of the civilized world.

:07:45

''0f all things fairest, ''
sang the poet...

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''first among cities and
home of the gods is golden Rome. ''

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Yet even at the zenith
of her pride and power...

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the Republic lay fatally stricken
with a disease called...

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human slavery.

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The age of the dictator
was at hand...

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waiting in the shadows
for the event to bring it forth.

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ln that same century...

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in the conquered
Greek province of Thrace...

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an illiterate slave woman
added to her master's wealth...

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by giving birth to a son
whom she named Spartacus.

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A proud, rebellious son...

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who was sold to living death
in the mines of Libya...

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before his thirteenth birthday.

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There, under whip
and chain and sun...

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he lived out his youth
and his young manhood...

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dreaming the death of slavery...

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2,000 years
before it finally would die.

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