Spartacus [videorecording]/

Resource Information

The work Spartacus [videorecording]/ represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Coweta Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Spartacus [videorecording]/

Statement of responsibility

Universal International ; Bryna Productions, Inc. presents ; screenplay by Dalton Trumbo ; produced by Edward Lewis ; directed by Stanley Kubrick

Creator

• Spartacus (Motion picture : 1960)

Contributor

• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• trueCurtis, Tony, 1925-2010
• Bryna Productions
• trueDouglas, Kirk, 1916-
• trueFast, Howard, 1914-2003
• Gavin, John, 1931-2018
• Kubrick, Stanley
• Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962
• Lewis, Edward, (Motion picture producer)
• trueOlivier, Laurence, 1907-1989
• Simmons, Jean, 1929-2010
• trueTrumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976
• Ustinov, Peter

Actor

• Ustinov, Peter
• trueCurtis, Tony, 1925-2010
• trueDouglas, Kirk, 1916-
• Gavin, John, 1931-2018
• Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962
• trueOlivier, Laurence, 1907-1989
• Simmons, Jean, 1929-2010

Film director

• Kubrick, Stanley

Film producer

• Lewis, Edward, (Motion picture producer)
• trueDouglas, Kirk, 1916-

Presenter

• Universal Pictures (Firm)

Production company

• Bryna Productions

Publisher

• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Screenwriter

• trueTrumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976

Subject

• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Gladiators
• Gladiators -- Rome -- Drama
• Historical films
• Historical films
• Historical films
• History
• Revolutionaries
• Revolutionaries -- Rome -- Drama
• Rome (Empire)
• Rome -- History -- Servile Wars, 135-71 B.C. -- Drama
• Servile Wars (Rome : 135-71 B.C.)
• Spartacus, -71 B.C
• Spartacus, -71 B.C. -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Feature films
• Fast, Howard, 1914-2003 -- Film adaptations
• Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
• Drama
• DVD-Video discs
• Biographical films
• Feature films
• 135-71 B.C
• Feature films -- United States
• Fiction films
• Fiction films

Genre

• Feature films
• trueDrama
• Historical films
• DVD-Video discs
• Film adaptations
• trueHistory
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Fiction films
• Biographical films

Language

• eng
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

A dramatized account of the slave uprising led by laborer-turned-gladiator Spartacus, against the combined forces of the late Roman Republic. After escaping from a gladiator training ground, Spartacus convinces his fellow escapees to join him in an attempt to free all Roman slaves, and becomes the head of a massive revolt that threatens to overwhelm the power of Rome

Related

• Hollywood ten
• Hollywood 10

Member of

• Criterion collection, 105

Awards note

Academy Award winner, 1961: Best Supporting Actor (Peter Ustinov) ; Best Art Direction, Color (Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom ; Set Decoration: Russell A. Gausman, Julia Heron) ; Best Cinematography, Color (Russell Metty) ; Best Costume Design, Color (Valles, Bill Thomas)

Cataloging source

IHZ

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Russell Metty ; editor, Robert Lawrence ; music, Alex North ; restored by Robert A. Harris and James C. Katz

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13

Language note

In English; optional English SDH (Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing)

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.S63 2001

PerformerNote

Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Tony Curtis

Runtime

196

Series statement

Criterion collection

Series volume

105

Target audience

general

Technique

live action