Sadly, Kubrick later disowned the picture because he regarded himself as a hired hand. The early sequences, set in the Libyan desert, were directed by Anthony Mann, who was fired by Douglas and replaced by the 31-year-old Kubrick. Despite the film's length and overemphasis in the latter half on wordy speeches from Douglas (the film's executive producer), the action leading up to the revolt of the gladiators is brilliantly re-created, with Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton and Laurence Olivier (as the Romans) addictively greedy scene-stealers. Director Stanley Kubrick's much-lauded historical epic, starring Kirk Douglas as the slave-turned-gladiator who leads a revolt against the might of the Romans, has come to be regarded as a classic of its genre.
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