Challenge of the Gladiator
Appearance
Challenge of the Gladiator | |
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Directed by | Domenico Paolella |
Starring | Peter Lupus |
Music by | Giuseppe Piccillo |
Distributed by | Variety Distribution |
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Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Challenge of the Gladiator (Italian: Il gladiatore che sfidò l'impero) is a 1965 Italian peplum film directed by Domenico Paolella.[1][2]
Plot
[edit]Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendary treasure. He is accompanied by his daughter Livia posing as a Christian slave girl, his cruel henchman Commodio, and Terenzius, an ex-gladiator and Nero look-alike who fools the local Thracians into believing he is the real Emperor. But Lucius's plans are thwarted by Spartacus and his band of rebels who succeed in capturing the treasure for Thrace. When news arrives from Rome that the real Nero has died, local Roman governor Consul Metellus joins forces with Spartacus to defeat the traitors.
Cast
[edit]- Peter Lupus: Spartacus (credited as Rock Stevens)
- Massimo Serato: Senator Lucio Quintilio
- Gloria Milland: Livia
- Livio Lorenzon: Commodio
- Piero Lulli: Consul Metello
- Walter Barnes: Terenzo
- Andrea Checchi
- Dario Michaelis
- Franco Ressel
- Bruno Scipioni
- Salvatore Borghese: Gladiator
References
[edit]- ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
- ^ Michele Giordano (1998). Giganti buoni. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877421835.
External links
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Categories:
- 1964 films
- 1965 films
- Films directed by Domenico Paolella
- 1960s fantasy adventure films
- Films set in the Roman Empire
- Films set in the 1st century
- Cultural depictions of Spartacus
- Sword-and-sandal films
- Italian fantasy adventure films
- 1960s Italian films
- 1960s Italian-language films
- 1960s Italian film stubs
- Adventure film stubs