]As the camera zoom pulls back, the anti-hero character with the malevolent, cold stare is shown sitting amidst his kingly court of teenaged gang of "droogs" - Georgie (James Marcus), Dim (Warren Clarke), and Pete (Michael Tarn).What better number could you buy? It""s a sure winner"), he is persuaded to purchase a minuscule part of a ticket for a drawing hree weeks off: "All right...when I""m in town.And I""m in town, as any fool can see." Not easily provoked, Macreedy knows one thing for certain - he is unable to find assistance of any kind and wonders darkly why everyone is so hostile to him:Well I know that, uh, ever since I got off the rain, that everybody""s been needlin"" me.Spartacus"" questing dream for the "death of slavery" would be doomed for two millennia:In the last century before the birth of the new faith called Christianity, which was destined to overthrow the pagan tyranny of Rome and bring about a new society, the Roman Republic stood at he very center of the civilized world.