
Demetrius and the Gladiators
1954 · Adventure · History


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The Warrior Who Founded Rome! The Kidnapping That Founded An Empire!
The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.
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CinemaSerf
September 14, 2025
Roger Moore was clearly engaged enough with this lightweight peplum to bother to do his own (fairly obvious) dubbing but that’s really all there is to say about this remarkably sterile telling of the tale of the search by the Romans for some ladies to help perpetuate their population. The city of Rome, under Moore’s king Romulus, only had men in it, you see, so he had to try and get hold of some gals from the nearby…
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