From a female standpoint of view, there is no (real) beefcake here because they all look like a bunch of apes. Spartacus being the ugliest of the apes. Good thing this is a comedy! They have Spartacus and his 10 merry men rebelling against fighting their own in the coliseum sports. Yet half of the film is of Spartacus and his 10 men fighting their own. Ironic ain't it. They roll around really well on the ground too. :P It's a terrible B film but does have some funny stuff that makes it worth watching on this rainy morning. It's an awful movie but it is cheap entertainment from the Mill Creek Warriors 50-Pack.3.5/10

I saw this one Saturday afternoon, as a teenager, then came across it again in a cheap sword & sandal DVD multipack. Since the price was a couple of bucks I picked it up and watched this again. The film is a hoot, with horrible dubbing, with dialogue and sound effects coming in very late (I guess the whips were supersonic, since they hit before the sound of the crack). I remember thinking when I was younger that the film was like a wrestling feud brought to life, with some extras thrown in and the same still holds true.Rocca and his buddies have left the arena but have been blackballed by the local Vince McMahon. They end up finding work for a fat patrician who is having some slave trouble, thanks to our pal Spartacus (but not Kirk Douglas). The Ten are sent out to recon the situation and meet with Spartacus and find out he's an "OK Joe". They head back with their report and the boss says he will just let them go. Yeah, right! A little drugged wine later and the beefy morons find themselves in the dungeon and the patrician is hatching a plan to destroy Spartacus. Conveniently, the dungeon is located under the gardens of the home and the roof is fairly thin. The guys get out, with the help of the patrician's daughter. They find Spartacus' people slaughtered and the rest taken back to the mines. The lunkheads then launch a guerrilla (more like gorilla, with these muscleheads) campaign to free them, with the help of a blacksmith, while Spartacus gather his army. Much WWE style fighting ensues (though with less convincing punches) and a pretty spectacular battle between the Romans and Spartacus' men (minus Tony Curtis) rages. In the end, Rocca battles the bald henchmen of the patrician to save his love interest.There are better movies out there and there are far worse ones. It doesn't aspire to greatness but it is pretty entertaining, as long as you aren't expecting Olivier. Dan Vadis is likable as Rocca, the head slab of beef, and the patrician is decidedly oilier than the gladiators. The actor playing the bald henchmen is delightfully evil and gets his in the end.If I'm not mistaken (and I haven't seen the film in a while) I believe the opening of this appears on TV in From Dusk Till Dawn (though it might have been a stock shot used in the previous Ten Gladiators film).If you like some cheesy fun or hordes of beefcake, you will probably enjoy this. It's much better than the examples of the genre that ended up on MST3K.

I don't exactly follow this genre, but there was a series of 10 Gladiator films in which ten muscle dudes went around in ancient Rome doing the good deeds and flexing their pecs at every opportunity. Dan Vadis heads the group and the Italian producers seem to be trying for a Seven Ronin type film without the success. Other than Vadis as the head gladiator the others develop absolutely no identities of their own. Hardly like the Seven Ronin or the American The Magnificent Seven.In this one the ten gladiators are tricked into leading a vicious Roman Senator into the camp of Spartacus. Later on the gladiators lead a pack of newly freed slaves into rescuing Spartacus from a Roman trap set by that selfsame Senator. That's about the sum and substance of the film that no one will ever confuse with the Stanley Kubrick classic.Besides, I thought Spartacus was a gladiator, wasn't he?

There are three films featuring the Ten Gladiators and starring Dan Vadis as the muscleman Roccia (literally "The Rock"!); this is the second entry in the series and, with a title like that, comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's SPARTACUS (1960) are bound to arise which, frankly, do it no favors at all! For one thing, the Spartacus of this film is overage and engages in an interminable fight with Vadis on their first meeting (after which they become allies); on the other hand, the slimy Roman senator and chief villain here is given a Charles Laughton-like voice in the English dubbing but is saddled with an incompetent giant (!) for a henchman (actually the same 'actor' was equally ill-at-ease in SAMSON [1961], which I had watched earlier in my peplum marathon). At least, Euro-Cult regular Helga Line' is on hand as the attractive heroine