Stanley Kubrick worked with Kirk Douglas.
Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb . Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick . The film starred Kirk Douglas as Spartacus , Laurence Olivier as the Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus , Peter Ustinov , who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor , as slave trader Lentulus Batiatus , John Gavin as Julius Caesar , Jean Simmons as Varinia , Charles Laughton as Sempronius Gracchus and Tony Curtis as Antoninus . Stanley Kubrick . This was followed by two collaborations with Kirk Douglas , the war picture Paths of Glory ( 1957 ) and the historical epic Spartacus ( 1960 ) .