Talking Pictures: Spartacus

BBC Four

7:30 PM to 8:15 PM

Thursday 5 June

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Celia Imrie narrates the story behind Stanley Kubrick's 1960 epic Spartacus, revealing how the film starring Kirk Douglas as the eponymous hero made it onto the big screen. Interviews from the BBC archives with key cast members, including Tony Curtis, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons and Douglas himself, expose the battles behind the scenes that saw the first director getting fired in favour of new talent Kubrick, and demonstrate how it was the gritty determination of leading man Douglas that led to the film defeating Hollywood's notorious anti-communist blacklist