The second adaptation of Raffaello Giovagnoli's novel comes at a time when Italy really started pumping out their epic films with the longer running times, expensive sets and lavish production values. This film really doesn't stray too far from the source as we have our hero Spartacus being sold as a slave only to rise up and battle the evil Crassus.
Director: Giovanni Enrico Vidali
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Come with me, you whose pulse beats faster than the magic name of freedom…”. If your appreciation of this acclaimed rebel comes courtesy of Stanley Kubrick and Kirk Douglas, then you might not readily recognise this far earlier telling of his story. Not least because the characte…
