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Drusco is blamed. Cloelia leads the women back across the Tiber to help the Romans fight the Etruscans. Soon the peace treaty is broken and the Roman army, under the command of Horatio Cocles (or "Cyclops", because he had lost an eye fighting when he was younger) prepare to make their last stand at the Sublicus Bridge over the River Tiber.
Roman Scandals: 1933 Eddie Cantor's dream sequence. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: 1966 Film version of the Musical Play – inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (251-183 B.C.), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria: The Arena: 1974
El Rapto de las Sabinas (English Translation: The Rape of the Sabine Women) is a 1962 historical drama film adaptation of the Roman foundation myth about the abduction of Sabine women by the Romans shortly after the foundation of the city of Rome (probably in the 750s BC). The film was written and directed by Alberto Gout.
The first version of Cloelia's escape recognizes that the female hostages went to the river to bathe. Having persuaded their guards to leave them alone at the river, in order to remain modest, they swam across the river into Roman territory. The second version claims that Cloelia escaped from the Etruscan camp, leading away a group of Roman ...
The Romans plan to travel north away from Roman territory, to throw the Picts off their trail, then head west and back south. After several days' pursuit, the Picts continually catch up with the fugitives, who jump off a cliff into a river to escape them; Tarak is killed before he can jump, and Macros and Thax become separated from the others.
Shortly after arriving in California, she went to a convenience store and heard a man preaching in the parking lot. The second time she saw him, the pair exchanged numbers and quickly started dating.
Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano in a pause during the shootings of Ulysses (1954) by Mario Camerini. Sword-and-sandal films are a specific class of Italian adventure films that have subjects set in Biblical or classical antiquity, often with plots based more or less loosely on Greco-Roman history or the other contemporary cultures of the time, such as the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Etruscans ...
The Last Roman (German: Kampf um Rom) is a West German-Italian historical drama film starring Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina and Honor Blackman. It was produced by Artur Brauner and was the last film to be directed by Robert Siodmak. [1] It was originally released in two parts (Kampf um Rom 1. Teil and Kampf um Rom 2.