Spartacus (film) eclipse him. Gracchus, having seen Rome fall into tyranny, commits suicide. Before doing so, he bribes his friend Batiatus to rescue Spartacus's family from Crassus and carry them away to freedom. On the way out of Rome, the group passes under Spartacus's cross. Varinia is able to comfort him in his dying moments by showing him his little son, who will grow up free and knowing who his father was. The development of "Spartacus" was partly instigated by Kirk Douglas's failure to win the title role in William Wyler's "Ben-Hur". Douglas had worked with Wyler before on "Detective Story", and
Sam Rosen (actor) Sam Rosen (actor) Sam Rosen is an American actor and writer. One of Rosen's earliest film roles, if not his first was playing a white rapist in "The Hymens Parable" which was directed by Jon Springer. Then he appeared as Eddie in the Bill Semans directed "Herman U. S. A." which was released in 2001. In an "International Business Times" article about the film "Five Days Gone", it said that he bestowed the film with a passionate, memorable performance as the drug addicted boyfriend of Alice (played by director Anna Kerrigan. He was the lead actor and co-writer of the