The Gladiators ( Demetrius and the Gladiators ) is an American film directed by Delmer Daves and released in 1954 .
Synopsis
Demetrius, the freed Greek slave who served martyrdom Marcellus, is in charge of preserving the tunic of Christ handed over by the Apostle Peter . But Emperor Caligula seizes the relic and Demetrius is condemned to the arena: the games of gladiators, the troubling Messaline , the wife of Claude , the uncle of the latter, will put a strain on the mission of Demetrius to lose it or save it from the cruel fate of singular combats.
Technical sheet
- Title: Gladiators
- Original title: Demetrius and the Gladiators
- Director: Delmer Daves
- Scenario: Philip Dunne , Lloyd C. Douglas
- Music: Franz Waxman
- Additional Music: Tunic Theme , composed by Alfred Newman
- Director of Photography: Milton R. Krasner
- Assistant Director: William Eckhardt
- Artistic Directors: George W. Davis , Lyle R. Wheeler
- Sound engineer: Roger Heman Sr. , Arthur von Kirbach
- Decorators: Paul S. Fox , Walter M. Scott
- Choreographer: Stephen Papich
- Costume Designer: Charles Le Maire
- Editors: Robert Fritch , Dorothy Spencer
- Producer: Frank Ross
- Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox
- Distribution Company: Twentieth Century Fox
- Country of origin: United States
- Language: English
- Date of filming: 1953
- Format: Color by Technicolor – 2.55: 1 CinemaScope – Sound 4 stereo tracks (Western Electric Recording) – 35 mm
- Genre: Historical Movie, Action Movie, Peplum , Drama
- Duration: 100 minutes
- Release date : , ,
Distribution
- Victor Mature (VF: Jacques Erwin ) : Demetrius
- Susan Hayward (VF: Claire Guibert ) : Messaline
- Michael Rennie (VF: Marc Valbel ) : Pierre
- Debra Paget (VF: Claude Winter ) : Lucia
- Anne Bancroft (VF: Nelly Benedetti ) : Paula
- Ernest Borgnine (VF: Pierre Morin ) : Strabo
- Jay Robinson (VF: René Bériard ) : Caligula
- Barry Jones (VF: Paul Villé ) : Claude
- William Marshall (VF: Marcel Painvin) : Glycon
- Richard Egan (VF: Pierre Leproux ) : Dardanius
- Charles Evans (VF: Richard Francoeur ) : Cassius Chaerea
- Fred Graham (VF: Claude Péran ) : Decurion
- Robert E. Griffin (VF: John Violet ) : Flavius
- Dayton Lummis (VF: Raymond Rognoni ) : magistrate
Around the film
- Continuation of the movie The Tunic where Victor Mature already embodied the slave Demetrius. Both films were shot at the same time in 1953 .