Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Spartacus (1960)

Spartacus (1960) -- (Movie Clip) May Fortune Smile On Most Of You

Batiatus (Peter Ustinov) returns to Italy from shopping at the slave camp in Libya, confirming that he’s in the gladiator business, introducing his chief trainer Marcellus (Charles McGraw) to the new men, including John Ireland and the producer, star and title character Kirk Douglas, in Spartacus, 1960.

Spartacus (1960) -- (Movie Clip) You Have A Certain Education

Roman general Crassus (Laurence Olivier) and wife (Nina Foch), with her ambitious brother Glabrus (John Dall) and wife (Joanna Barnes), are guests of gladiator-dealer Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), but most interested in Britannic slave Varinia (Jean Simmons), in Spartacus, 1960, starring Kirk Douglas.

Spartacus (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Call Out The Guard!

The beginning of the slave rebellion, at the gladiator-camp, producer and star Kirk Douglas tangles with Marcellus (Charles McGraw) upon learning his girlfriend (Jean Simmons) has been sold, proprietor Batiatus (Peter Ustinov) with a quick and shrewd reading, in Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, 1960.

Spartacus (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Both Snails And Oysters

The long-excised bath scene, with dialogue restored in 1991, Tony Curtis doing his own voice and Anthony Hopkins the deceased Laurence Olivier, as the dignified but maybe-decadent general Crassus illuminates his handsome new slave Antoninus, in Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, 1960.

Spartacus (1960) -- (Movie Clip) A Disease Called Human Slavery

Vic Perrin's crisp narration, from the screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, given his first screen credit by producer and star Kirk Douglas after years on the Hollywood blacklist, the introduction of Douglas and some of his tormentors, Stanley Kubrick directing, in Spartacus, 1960.

Spartacus (1960) -- (Movie Clip) A Taste Of Roman Steel

Director Stanley Kubrick’s first scene in Rome, the slave rebellion begun, introducing canny plebeian-born senator Gracchus (Charles Laughton), who manipulates the power-mad Glabrus (John Dall), his pal Caesar (John Gavin) noticeably disinterested, in Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, 1960.

Spartacus (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Have We Learned Nothing?

Producer and title character Kirk Douglas is disgusted with his fellow slave gladiators, making their former masters fight after their rebellion, confronting colleague Crixus (John Ireland), looking to inspire action against Rome, planning to find some ships, in Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus, 1960.