Sentences with phrase «gladiatorial schools»

Gladiatorial schools purchased the finest physical specimens and then spent months or years training them in armed and unarmed combat.

But everything about this part of the film is beautifully done, from the gritty realism of the gladiatorial school, to the touch of bitter irony in the gladiators catering to the crowd's thirst for blood, to the build - up as the story takes us all the way to Rome and the Colosseum.

He's then sold to a gladiatorial school in North Africa where he proves to be an unparalleled killer.

But the hairstyles of the visiting Roman women at the gladiatorial school are laughable, and even Jean Simmons looks too made up and coiffed at times.