![]() The immortal “I am Spartacus” aside, it’s these villains that have the best lines in writer Dalton Trumbo’s sly characterisation of the decadent and divided one percent. Peter Ustinov, the only actor to win an Oscar for a Kubrick film, is roguishly engaging as the merchant and trader of gladiators, the oil in the machine of Empire. Charles Laughton is the worldly senator, a wily pragmatist and circumspect serial seducer. Laurence Olivier is the born-to-rule Crassus, icy and ruthless. Producer/star Kirk Douglas is forever remembered as the shirtless rebel slave, but it’s the rest of the cast who give the film its zest. ![]() ![]() Young Stanley Kubrick stepped up to filmmaking on the grand scale to direct the most literate and enjoyable of all Hollywood’s ancient-Rome epics.
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