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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Goran Visnjic | ... | Spartacus | |
| Alan Bates | ... | Agrippa | |
| Angus Macfadyen | ... | Crassus | |
| Rhona Mitra | ... | Varinia | |
| Ian McNeice | ... | Batiatus | |
| James Frain | ... | David | |
| Henry Simmons | ... | Draba | |
| Ross Kemp | ... | Cinna | |
| Ben Cross | ... | Glabrus | |
| Paul Kynman | ... | Crixus | |
| Paul Telfer | ... | Gannicus | |
| Chris Jarman | ... | Nordo | |
| Georgina Rylance | ... | Helena | |
| Stuart Bunce | ... | Cornelius Lucius | |
| Hristo Shopov | ... | Maecenus | |
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Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in the form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion. Written by Ronos
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Sir Alan Bates' last performance. He died on December 27, 2003 at the age of sixty-nine. See more »Goofs
When Spartacus is fighting in the arena with sword and shield he has his sword in his right hand and shield in his left, except in one brief shot where the film was obviously reversed. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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One of the previous reviewers, whose review garnered a "useful" label by 29 out of 29 people at the time of this writing, had the gall to correct the "thumbs up" vs "thumbs down" decision-making style of the gladiatorial arena.
This is the height of hubris. In reality, there is not a person alive today who truly knows what motion of the hand meant what in ancient Rome. The entirety of our knowledge of the "thumbs up" thing comes from a passage in a letter written in Latin where it is mentioned that at a recent gladiatorial game the writer had observed that the fate was decided in "the usual way" by means of "pressed thumb". Hollywood interpreted this as thumbs up vs thumbs down, but who the hell knows what it really means.
Where the previous author collected this notion of down meaning "spare him" and some kind of "stabbing motion" meaning "kill him" is completely mysterious and untrue. The arrogance with which he delivered the assuredly true claim forced me to correct him publicly, as his review of this film had been validated by 29 people, which by extension validated this fiction he perpetrates.