![]() Though Douglas did not particularly enjoy his collaboration with Kubrick on the set of the 1957 Paths of Glory, a superb WWI movie, he nonetheless recognized the director’s talents and hired him as a replacement to Mann. “He seemed scared of the scope of the picture,” Douglas later wrote in his memoir, making a rather dubious statement as one year later Mann would be making the epic El Cid. However, Douglas fired Mann after one week of shooting, in which the opening sequence in the quarry had been shot. Well cast, Douglas brings his customary muscular physicality and emotional intensity to the titular role.Īfter David Lean turned down the offer to direct, Douglas, who initiated the project and served as producer, hired Anthony Mann, then best known for his Jimmy Stewart’s Westerns Winchester ’73 and The Naked Spur. One of the most intelligent and exciting historical epics to have come out of Hollywood, Spartacus, inspired by the true story of the slave rebellion and the third servile war in ancient Rome, features Kirk Douglas in one of his most iconic parts. Spartacus (1960): Kubrick’s Golden Globe-Winning Historical Epic ![]()
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