]Other versions of the ""Spartacus"" slave story included:director Riccardo Freda""sSpartaco (1953, It.) (aka Sins of Rome, or Spartacus the Gladiator),starring Massimo Girottidirector Sergio Corbucci""sThe Slave (1962, It.But, ha, ha, wild horses wouldn""t drag me away from England and home and all he things I""m used to.I mean, one has one""s roots after all, hasn""t one?Laura: Oh yes, one has one""s roots.During a grotesque closeup of Dolly""s gigantic lips which move as she speaks, Laura narrates further to herself:I wish you""d stop talking.The butler and the woman of the house both mistakenly believe that he is the animal mortician who has come to provide a satin-lined coffin for the burial of her beloved pet monkey [a significant fact, for Joe""s presence at the mansion leads to his own death] - positioned in her ornately-decorated bedroom on her massage table in front of a roaring fire: "He always liked fires and poking at them with a stick.She splashed out in the knee-deep water to apologize and asked "How are you?" Characteristically, he joked:If you wanted to get me on my back, you just had o ask me.