| The limited dynamic range of the soundtrack is an indication of the relative age of Spartacus, but only finicky audiophiles should mind too much. |
|
| Tens of thousands marched with Spartacus, and a succession of Roman armies were crushed. |
|
| In the miniseries, Spartacus is very brooding, contemplative and very quiet. |
|
| Some consider that the leader and military commander Spartacus was a Thracian. |
|
| There were, however, more of these outbreaks than just that of Spartacus, and the Romans were continually afraid of uprisings of slaves. |
|
| Tony Curtis plays his poor, young slave, who runs away to join up with Spartacus after Olivier puts the make on him. |
|
| The ballet tells the story of the slave-leader Spartacus who incites his fellow slaves to revolt against their Roman oppressors. |
|
| The real Spartacus was a soldier in the Roman army before being made a prisoner. |
|
| Instead, it claims that Spartacus was born into slavery and even, at one point, has him state that his father and grandfather were slaves. |
|
| In the United States the Trotskyist youth in the early 1930's called their paper Young Spartacus. |
|
| In December 1934, with members of the last team at Masses, he launched a new weekly : Spartacus, for revolutionary culture and mass action. |
|
| In June, the Cahiers Spartacus released, under the title Le Guépéou en Espagne, Marcel Ollivier's report on the May 1937 events in Barcelona. |
|
| Spartacus is training as a gladiator in Capua when some rich kids turn up from Rome, led by Marcus Licinius Crassus. |
|
| Incidentally, the film's suggestion that Crassus engaged Spartacus as a gladiator is fiction. |
|
| Starz Betrayed by a Roman general, Spartacus is sold to become a gladiator and his wife is kidnapped. |
|
| Gladiator weds the heroic scope of movies like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Braveheart, and Rob Roy with the serpentine political treachery of I, Claudius. |
|
| But when Lentulus with a large army besieged Spartacus, he sallied out upon him, and, joining battle, defeated his chief officers, and captured all his baggage. |
|
| Through Spartacus, Zofia trained with a pistol smuggled in by communist partisans. |
|
| Thank the Lares and Penates that Howard Fast wrote Spartacus for similar reasons. |
|
| Those hesitant Spartacus devotees should be relieved to know that McIntyre is on board in this respect as well. |
|
|
|
| Helena obviously prefers hers coated in the Roman republic's entire supply of bronzer, for she picks Spartacus. |
|
| After his praetorship he defeated Spartacus, but Pompey, after crucifying many fugitives, claimed credit for the victory, deeply offending Crassus. |
|
| There had, of course, been Spartacus, but his short-lived epic struggle had been combated and eradicated by Rome as a scourge may be combated and eradicated. |
|
| The music of the Spartacus Ballet is composed by the globally-acclaimed Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. |
|
| A rousing Spartacus Suite from Khachaturian was loud enough to blow away any cobwebs and yet still captured the romance of the adagio. |
|
| Whereas this film is about Spartacus, but does not have that plot. |
|
| See Montgomery's biography on the Spartacus Educational website. |
|
| He duplicated the voice of his late mentor, Laurence Olivier, for additional scenes in Spartacus in its 1991 restoration. |
|
| To this followed a major slave revolt under Spartacus, and then the establishment of the first Triumvirate with Caesar, Pompey and Crassus. |
|
| My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus. |
|
| Poland and Ireland were Sparta and Spartacus compared to these villains. |
|
| It is said to be a gorier version of Spartacus, with more impressive battle scenes than Braveheart. |
|
| The third and final uprising was the most serious, involving ultimately between 120,000 and 150,000 slaves under the command of the gladiator Spartacus. |
|
| In 1992, she provided her voice to the character of actress Jean Simmons in Jeff Wayne's musical retelling of Spartacus, entitled Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus. |
|
| Spartacus stays surprisingly close to the historical record. |
|
