Celia Imrie tells the story of Kirk Douglas’s 1960 epic Spartacus and reveals how what was then the most expensive film of all time made it onto the big screen.
Celia Imrie tells the story of Kirk Douglas’s 1960 epic Spartacus and reveals how what was then the most expensive film of all time made it onto the big screen.
Interviews from the BBC archives with key cast , including Tony Curtis, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons and Kirk Douglas himself, expose the battles behind the scenes that saw the first director getting fired in favour of new talent Stanley 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.
