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One Sheet (27" x 41"); Academy Awards Style
Very Fine+ Folded
Universal-International, 1961
Issued in 1961 to trumpet the film's four Academy Award wins, this poster is folded and exhibits sporadic crimping.
"Spartacus" is an epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick, featuring Kirk Douglas in the title role as a slave who leads a revolt against Rome during the Third Servile War. The film, adapted by Dalton Trumbo from Howard Fast's 1951 novel, also stars Laurence Olivier as Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus, Charles Laughton as Sempronius Gracchus, Peter Ustinov as the slave trader Lentulus Batiatus, and John Gavin as Julius Caesar. Jean Simmons portrays Varinia, Spartacus' fictional wife, while Tony Curtis plays the fictional slave Antoninus.
Estimate: $300 - 600