Spartacus The Gladiator

A two page advert from a Kine Weekly gives us a broad idea of the nature of this 1953 Italian production, originally called ‘Spartaco’. Pete Walker released the film on his Heritage label and and the 400′ must have fooled a number of collectors into thinking that this was the Kirk Douglas 1960 production. Here’s the Heritage box, the page from the Heritage catalogue, Mountains who took over the distribution of the lable later) and a two page review from Denis Gifford’s Armchair Odeons.