''Alone Against Rome'' ( it, Solo contro Roma, also known as ''Vengeance of the Gladiators'') is a 1962

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directed by Luciano Ricci and starring Lang Jeffries and Rossana Podestà.

Cast

* Lang Jeffries as Brennus * Rossana Podestà as Fabiola * Philippe Leroy as Sylla * Gabriele Tinti as Goruk *

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as Saron's Servant * Giorgio Nenadovic as Centurion Caius * Goffredo Unger as Old Christian * Rinaldo Zamperla as Light Blond Prisoner

Release

''Alone Against Rome'' was released in September 1962 in Italy. It was later released in the United States in December 1963 with a 100-minute running time.

Reception

In a contemporary review, the ''

Monthly Film Bulletin ''The Monthly Film Bulletin'' was a periodical of the British Film Institute published monthly from February 1934 to April 1991, when it merged with ''Sight & Sound''. It reviewed all films on release in the United Kingdom, including those with a ...

'' described the film as a "lavishly staged" and "shot in pale, restrained colours, this Italian spectacle reduces dialogue to the minimum and concentrates on as varied a display of violent action as the most eager fan could wish for, ranging from ambushes in the forest to bloody underground revolutions and equally savage gladiatorial contests." The review noted that "one has to forget the vapid, dubbed dialogue, and lumbering acting (the one exception being Philippe Leroy's villainous, cold-eyed Silla)." The review also noted the second-unit director

Riccardo Freda Riccardo Freda (24 February 1909 – 20 December 1999) was an Italian film director. He worked in a variety of genres, including sword-and-sandal, horror, ''giallo'' and spy films. Freda began directing ''I Vampiri'' in 1956. The film became t ...

, noting that "The arena scenes, in particular, are directed with a fine sense of movement and camera style by Riccardo Freda, who has now joined that select band of second unit directors on whom this kind of film tends to rely."

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* 1962 adventure films Peplum films Films set in the Roman Empire Films about gladiatorial combat Films with screenplays by Ernesto Gastaldi Yugoslav adventure films Sword and sandal films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub