#SPARTACUS FILM MOVIE#
“We thought it was kind of nice to have Hollywood come to Spartan Stadium for a movie called ‘Spartacus.’”Īs “Spartacus” producer/star Kirk Douglas wrote in his autobiography, “It’s only natural for Spartacus to go to the Spartans for help.” “Never before have the shouts and cries of 76,000 people been reproduced on the screen by 76,000 people.” “Yours will be the most thunderous offstage dialogue in the history of motion pictures,” thundered the press release. There you’ll find a press release from Universal Pictures containing Gavin’s prompt script. He enshrined the papers in a display case at Conrad Hall to mark the 50th anniversary of the film’s release. “At 70 years old, cut me a little slack,” Stewart said.Įd Busch, an archivist at MSU, ran across some memorabilia from the game this spring. Stewart and his 76,000 co-stars did yell the words “Hail Spartacus,” but not together. “They wanted us to scream as loud as we could,” Stewart said. Just before kick off, actor John Gavin (Julius Caesar) and a sound crew from “Spartacus” led the crowd through a series of noises to use on the film’s soundtrack. Through a haze of 51 years, Stewart, a criminal science professor at MSU, struggled to remember what he and 76,000 other Spartan football fans were asked to scream before the October 17, 1959, football game pitting MSU against Notre Dame.īack when Stewart was a sophomore, a Hollywood publicity stunt gave MSU a strange distinction. “I could swear it was ‘Hail, Spartacus,’” Stewart said. So what did Cy Stewart yell at the top of his lungs? He wore burlap, probably was a socialist, and never pulled rank on his ‘brothers.’ It wasn’t his style to hail or be hailed. Spartacus was a humble slave who broke out of gladiator school, gathered a slave army and fought the fat cats of imperial Rome.
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