The Warrior and the Slave Girl (1958)
(La rivolta dei gladiatori)
Country: IT/FR/SP
Technical: col/scope 88m
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi
Cast: Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Manni, Mara Cruz, Georges Marchal
Synopsis:
Sent as trouble-shooter to the semi-settled province of Armenia, a Roman tribune discovers that the infant king is being slowly poisoned by the Queen Regent, who is in cahoots with the Scythians, and the oppressed people are made to live out their days as gladiators if they revolt.
Review:
A pallid production, already mining material that Hollywood would get around to eventually. The hand-to-hand fighting is typically lame (arrows clutched to chests) and the dialogue wanting in finesse ('You there!', 'I hate you Roman pigs!'), but the costumes aren't bad, particularly the trousers worn by the warrior women, tightly tailored and embellished with greave attachments. Essentially a Western narrative, with the legionaries arriving like the 7th Cavalry (horses were generally only ridden by foreign auxiliaries).
(La rivolta dei gladiatori)
Country: IT/FR/SP
Technical: col/scope 88m
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi
Cast: Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Manni, Mara Cruz, Georges Marchal
Synopsis:
Sent as trouble-shooter to the semi-settled province of Armenia, a Roman tribune discovers that the infant king is being slowly poisoned by the Queen Regent, who is in cahoots with the Scythians, and the oppressed people are made to live out their days as gladiators if they revolt.
Review:
A pallid production, already mining material that Hollywood would get around to eventually. The hand-to-hand fighting is typically lame (arrows clutched to chests) and the dialogue wanting in finesse ('You there!', 'I hate you Roman pigs!'), but the costumes aren't bad, particularly the trousers worn by the warrior women, tightly tailored and embellished with greave attachments. Essentially a Western narrative, with the legionaries arriving like the 7th Cavalry (horses were generally only ridden by foreign auxiliaries).
(La rivolta dei gladiatori)
Country: IT/FR/SP
Technical: col/scope 88m
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi
Cast: Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Manni, Mara Cruz, Georges Marchal
Synopsis:
Sent as trouble-shooter to the semi-settled province of Armenia, a Roman tribune discovers that the infant king is being slowly poisoned by the Queen Regent, who is in cahoots with the Scythians, and the oppressed people are made to live out their days as gladiators if they revolt.
Review:
A pallid production, already mining material that Hollywood would get around to eventually. The hand-to-hand fighting is typically lame (arrows clutched to chests) and the dialogue wanting in finesse ('You there!', 'I hate you Roman pigs!'), but the costumes aren't bad, particularly the trousers worn by the warrior women, tightly tailored and embellished with greave attachments. Essentially a Western narrative, with the legionaries arriving like the 7th Cavalry (horses were generally only ridden by foreign auxiliaries).