Monday, August 8, 2011

Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)




Starring Susan Hayward, Victor Mature, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Egan, and Julie Newmar. Directed by Delmar Daves. An ex-slave who embraced Christianity after being present at the Crucifixion is thrown in jail for defending an elderly merchant from a sadistic Roman legionnaire. He is forced to attend gladiator school and fight in the arena for the amusement of the mad emperor Caligula.

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