Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators

(1964)

99 minutes.

Film / Adventure / Drama / Sword and Sandal / Foreign

Directed by Nick Nostro

Cast: Dan Vadis, Helga Line and Alfredo Varelli

Country: Italy

There are three films featuring the Ten Gladiators and starring Dan Vadis as the muscleman Roccia. This is the second entry in the series. 71 B.C. during the rebellion of Spartacus , a gladiator named Roccia and his band of fellows gladiators flee from the Coliseum. After escaping they save the damsel in distress, only to find she is a senator 's daughter. They're well received by the Senator Varro, though are drugged and locked up. Later on, they escape and join forces with Spartacus to fight Senator Varro. Spartacus wants return to Tracia and is waiting for ships. The ten gladiators are faced at every turn by the Roman army. Roccia falls in love with Daliah and then must rescue her from slavery and death. The slavers are building an aqueduct and the gladiators decide attack the detachment.