Spartacus – 1970s RR

Condition: Excellent/Very Good

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Size: 23 x 31 inches (60 x 80 cm)

An original French Moyenne poster for the 1970’s re-release of “Spartacus”. The poster is in superb condition an possibly never displayed, featuring artwork by renowned French illustrator Yves Thos.

Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas in the title role, a slave and gladiator who leads a rebellion against Rome during the events of the Third Servile War. Adapted by Dalton Trumbo from Howard Fast's 1951 novel of the same title, the film also stars Laurence Olivier as Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus, Charles Laughton as rival senator Sempronius Gracchus, Peter Ustinov as gladiatorial school owner Lentulus Batiatus, and John Gavin as Julius Caesar. Jean Simmons played Spartacus' wife Varinia, a fictional character, and Tony Curtis played the fictional slave Antoninus.

Spartacus is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus, owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman Senator Marcus Licinius Crassus, 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, a slave from Britannia. When Spartacus later learns that Varinia has been sold to Crassus, he leads seventy-eight 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. The revolt becomes the principal cog in the wheel of a political struggle between Crassus and a more temperate Senator named Gracchus.

"They trained him to kill for their pleasure. . . but they trained him a little too well."

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