00:00Kirk Douglas bought Spartacus for $5 million and saved the film for Cannes.
00:05I'm going to make a video a day about the Cannes Film Festival until Dailymotion invites me to
00:10Cannes Film Festival.
00:10Yeah, nothing ventured, nothing gained. And hurry up because I need to get my hair done.
00:14Kirk Douglas bought the rights to Spartacus for $5 million in cash and saved it from the
00:19McCarthy censorship at Cannes in 1960.
00:22The McCarthy era of censorship refers to a period of intense political repression in the United States.
00:26which is linked to McCarthyism, an anti-communist movement of the 1950s.
00:31McCarthyism originated with the American senator Joseph McCarthy.
00:34Between 1950 and 1954, he led a campaign to hunt down suspected communists who had infiltrated American society.
00:42Game over.
00:43In 1960, Kirk Douglas was both producer and lead star of the film directed by Stanley Kubrick.
00:48His partner, Kirk Kirkham, wants to bury the project because the screenwriter Dalton Trumbo
00:53figure on the blacklist of suspected communists for the McCarthy witch hunt.
00:59So releasing the film is extremely risky because it could ruin careers.
01:03Maker Douglas refuses.
01:05He refuses to give in and uses his personal fortune to raise the money.
01:08He imposed Kubrick as director against all odds and forced a worldwide release.
01:13In Cannes, the screening triggered a 15-minute standing ovation.
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