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The Ten Gladiators
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Wikipedia article
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| music = Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
| cinematography = Francesco Izzarelli
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| runtime = 110 minutes
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'The Ten Gladiators' is a 1963 Italian film directed by Gianfranco Parolini.
Plot summary
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
Cast
*Roger Browne as Glaucus Valerius
*Jos Greci (a.k.a. Susan Paget) as Lidia
*Dan Vadis as Roccia
*Franca Parisi (a.k.a. Margaret Taylor) as Poppea
*Gianni Rizzo as Claudius Nero
*Mimmo Palmara (aka Dick Palmer) as Tigelinus
*Ugo Sasso as Resius
*Mirko Ellis as Servius Galba
*Gianfranco Parolini as Livius Verus
*Vassili Karis as Epaphrodito
*Emilio Messina as Gladiator Leptus
*Giuseppe Mattei (aka Pino Mattei) as Gladiator Methodius
*Pietro Torrisi as Gladiator
*Aldo Canti as Gladiator
*Giancarlo Bastianoni as Gladiator
*Giuliano Dell'Ovo as Gladiator
*Gino Turini (a.k.a. John Turner) as Gladiator
*Romano Giomini as Gladiator
*Ivano Staccioli as Gladiator
*Roberto Messina as Gladiator
*Milton Reid as Bald Wrestler
*Salvatore Borghese as Milo / Minius, the Mute
*Arnaldo Fabrizio as Glaucus' Little Servant
*Veriano Ginesi as Geriel, the Ship's Drummer
Release
'The Ten Gladiators' was released in Italy on 14 December 1963 with a 110-minute running time as 'I dieci gladiatori'. On its American release, the film had a running time of 104 minutes.
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