screenshots / Challenge of the Gladiators / 1962 Cine Italia Film

Original Italian title: Il gladiatore che sfidō l'impero (The gladiator who challenged the empire).

Starring bodybuilder Peter Lupus (aka: Rock Stevens) who would later gain fame in the role of Willy Armitage on the television series Mission Impossible (1966-73).

Directed by Domenico Paolella, who also worked with Peter Lupus on the films Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964) and Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus (1965).

Peter Lupus made yet another film under the name of Rock Stevens, that being a 1965 pirate adventure titled Giant of the Evil Island.

Domenico Paolella passed in 2002 at the age of 86.