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Auction History Result 2x554 SPARTACUS French magazine ad '61 classic Stanley Kubrick & Kirk Douglas epic, different art! Date Sold 11/22/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage French Movie Magazine Ad (measures 9 3/4" x 12 3/4" [25 x 32 cm]) (Learn More) Spartacus, the classic 1960 Stanley Kubrick sword-and-sandal Ancient Wars gladiator sports action adventure epic ("Winner of 4 Academy Awards!"; "They trained him to kill for their pleasure... But they trained him a little too well..."; "A mighty motion picture!"; "Based on the novel by Howard Fast"; written by Dalton Trumbo) starring Kirk Douglas (in the title role as Spartacus), Laurence Olivier (as Crassus, who liked both oysters and snails, or was it truffles and artichokes?), Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton (as Gracchus), Peter Ustinov (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Woody Strode (as Draba), Tony Curtis ("as Antoninus"), John Gavin (as Julius Caesar), Charles McGraw (as the gladiator trainer), and Herbert Lom. Note that Kirk Douglas was the producer of this movie and originally Anthony Mann was directing. But three weeks into filming, Douglas fired Mann and replaced him with Stanley Kubrick, who then fired Sabine Bethmann, who had been the female lead, and replaced her with Jean Simmons! Also note that Dalton Trumbo had been blacklisted during the HUAAC hearings in the early 1950s, and he was still blacklisted at this time, so he was not going to receive screen credit. Kubrick heard this and wanted to be given the screenwriter credit (since someone had to be credited), but producer Douglas courageously insisted on Trumbo receiving the credit on screen, which effectively ended the blacklist! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this ad was removed from a movie magazine that was printed when this movie first came out. It has cool gladiator art under the title, which we are not sure we have seen published anywhere else, except for on an Australian pressbook cover, which we are auctioning in a separate auction.. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. There is printing on the reverse side of the ad, but we don't picture it, because it is surely of little interest. But this ad can be matted or framed for little money and makes a great inexpensive display! Condition: good to very good. The page was removed from a magazine and folded across the middle and slightly down the center. There is slight paper loss in the upper left corner (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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