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Kubrick's SPARTACUS was adapted from a novel by a communist blacklisted by publishers, and adapted for the screen by a communist blacklisted by Hollywood. Was this project consciously anti-McCarthyist, or even socialist, given its subject matter? How sensitive was this to Kubrick or his studio?

by /u/Basilikon in /r/AskHistorians

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