Sunday, May 10, 2015

REVENGE OF THE GLADIATOR 1964 (SINISTER CINEMA)

Not too bad sword and sandal epic.

Mickey Hargitay stars in this well made film. He is Fabio, a warrior who comes to realize Rome is weak and getting more corrupt as time passes. The evil leader Genseri has a plan to for the girl Fabio loves into marrying his own son.

Fabio hides the woman, Pricilla, but is then captured and tortured to tell where she is. He refuses, but Pricilla comes forward and the wedding is set, but not before a final plan to stop it is hatched.

There is plenty of action as expected in this epic, and Hargitay does an exceptional job. I have read many good reviews of this and I agree with them all. This is a notch above the usual films in this genre. Now, don't get me wrong, I love all films like this, but this is a more serious effort.

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