When Spartacus hit theaters in 1960, audiences expected another grand sword-and-sandals spectacle with Roman armies, gladiator clashes and chariots thundering across the plains. What they didn’t ...

Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) tears through steel and stone in a desperate midnight escape—scraping, climbing, pushing back ...

Kirk Douglas, the intense, muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in “Spartacus,” “Lust for Life” and dozens of other films, helped fatally weaken the blacklist against suspected Communists ...

After battling a competing production featuring Yul Brynner, Spartacus became a passion project for Kirk Douglas that rapidly transformed into a disaster. Throughout filming that ran drastically over ...

Michael Douglas is looking back on one of the most iconic films of his producing career − and the awkward situation it created with his father. The Oscar-winning "Wall Street" star, 81, chatted with ...