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SPARTACUS – (1913) / BEN-HUR – (1907) – LUCIANO ALBERTINI – SILENT – RARE DVD
SPARTACUS (1913) Directed by Giovanni Enrico Vidali
Cast: Luciano Albertini – Enrico Bracci Alberto Capozzi – Signor Fretti Maria Gandini – Mario Guaita-Ausonia Achille Majeroni – Luigi Mele Leo Ragusi – Cristina Ruspoli
A romanticized telling of the famous gladiator who led a slave revolt against his Roman masters. This early Italian feature uses great locations, wonderful costumes and a large numbers of extras to bring this epic to life.
Ben Hur (1907) Directed by Sidney Olcott & Frank Oakes Rose
Starring: Herman Rottger William S. Hart.
This film as the dubious distinction of being the first film to be sued for not obtaining the rights to film the story.