I giganti di Roma

Giants of Rome Italian I giganti di Roma is a 1964 ItalianFrench international coproduction widescreen sword and sandal adventure war film set in the Gallic Wars. It was directed by Antonio Margheriti and starred Richard Harrison and Wandisa Guida. The films plot resembles The Guns of Navarone of the Roman Empire a handpicked group of expert soldiers infiltrate the enemys stronghold to locate and destroy a secret weapon prior to the Battle of Alesia.

Centurion Claudius Marcellus leads three other men, Germanicus the strong man, Varus an expert knife thrower and Castor an experienced and highly competent soldier. The party infiltrates the enemys lines through the sacrifice of their escort party who launch a suicidal attack on the Druids to attract their attention away from Marcellus party. Joining the four commandoes is young Valerius a boy who ran away from a wealthy Roman home to become a Legionary but only became a Gunga Din type labourer.The party is captured where they are placed next to Livilla, a captured Roman patrician noblewoman and her last surviving member of her Roman Army escort Drusus who has lost his courage and military discipline through constant torture. Called before Vercingetorix, Claudius Marcellus the leader of the group is threatened with torture by heated iron bars but he astounds Vercingetorix by grabbing a hot piece of iron and laying it on his own chest telling the Grand Druid not to waste his time. Taken back to his cell as Vercingetorix schemes better torture, strongman Germanicus is able to bend the bars of the cell so the party can enter the adjoining cell of Livilla and Drusus that makes an escape possible. ........

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