A Fearless 30 Year Old Stanley Kubrick Directs The Best of the Best

Rating: 10/10 (4 February 2020)

My title says it all. Talk about fearless, any other director would be terrified directing this cast. Stanley Kubrick was only 30 years old. He had already made "Paths of Glory" (1957). In my opinion, that was 1 of his 2 greatest films: "Paths of Glory" and "A Clockwork Orange" (1971). "Spartacus" was a challenge Kubrick met; however, he did not have final cut. Kirk Douglas did, for a very simple reason: Kirk produced "Spartacus". Kubrick vowed he would never to allow this after making his next film ("Lolita" in 1962). After "Lolita", Stanley truly had "final cut". This would last until the day he died (March 7th 1999).