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"The revolt of the gladiatrices"), also known as Naked Warriors, is a 1974 gladiator exploitation film directed by Steve Carver and starring Margaret Markov and Pam Grier. Pam Grier and Margaret Markov portray female gladiators in ancient Rome, who have been enslaved and must fight for their freedom.
The Romans of the Classical period had no specific word for female gladiators as a type or class. [1] The earliest reference to a woman gladiator as gladiatrix is by a scholiast in the 4th–5th century, who mockingly wonders whether a woman undergoing training for a performance at the ludi for the Floralia, a festival known for racy performances by seminude dancers, wants to be a gladiatrix ...
The Arena is a direct-to-video film from producer Roger Corman on the subject of female gladiators.It is a remake of the 1974 The Arena with Pam Grier.It was shot in Russia by Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov [1] with a Russian crew and it featured Playboy Playmates Karen McDougal and Lisa Dergan, [2] in their feature film debut, playing Amazon slaves forced to be gladiators in a Roman arena.
“Gladiator II” isn’t quite the prestige film the first one, a best-picture winner, was in 2001. It’s more a swaggering, sword-and-sandal epic that prizes the need to entertain above all else.
It took a village of Denis Villeneuve’s most trusted artisans to pull off “Dune: Part Two’s” epic Harkonnen arena fight scene. As epic as its predecessor, Villeneuve’s sequel raises the ...
Fans of Moon Knight star May Calamawy are up in arms after learning that almost all of her scenes have been cut from the new blockbuster Gladiator 2.. The 38-year-old Egyptian-Palestinian actor ...
The discovery of the Great Dover Street woman was announced in 2000 following excavations in 1996 at the site by Museum of London Archaeology. [1]The grave was a cremation dating from the early 2nd- to mid-3rd-century AD, from a bustum funeral over a pit into which the remains eventually fell and were covered.
After doing International Gladiators, Huthart was invited back to the show to become a Gladiator for the 1995 Sheffield Live Shows, and was given the name "Blaze". Huthart's time as a Gladiator was brief; however, she wanted to represent her country in the Ashes series in Australia , where she lost to her opponent from the domestic series final ...