New Year TV films

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Powerful story of the slave revolt that at one stage seemed a threat to Rome itself. Kirk Douglas, resplendent in a 1950s flattop, heads a cast dedicated to showing that a sword and sandals epic could be about more than, well, swords and sandals. Presumably this is the restored version, which has the celebrated scene in which the bisexual Crassus ...