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Entertaining Peplum with the corpulent Gordon Mitchell and Roger Browne as intrepid as well as liberator heroes . Here Tribune Marcus (Roger Browne) flees from Rome where Nero pursues Christians , as he has been banished for his support the martyred Christians . As Marcus arrives in the city of Aristea and to take charge of an aqueduct project located on the far country , being built by mistreated and unjustly condemned slaves . There rules Gaius (Giacomo Rossi Stuart) who seeks vengeance when being replaced by Marcus . Gaius instigates a rebellion by his slave-workers , then accuses the situation on Marcus . After that , as retribution , several slaves are cruelly crucified . During the revolt , five (Alfio Caltabiano , Mario Novelli , Nello Pazzafini) muscular slaves getaway . Later on , they join forces with fellow escapee Balisten (Gordon Mitchell) , a farmer who has rescued the Tribune from the revolt . The six slaves , with Marcus's advice , scheme to battle for the freedom of the Aristea people and Marcus plans to clear his name and gain his freedom using their prowess as gladiator along with his partners . While , Marcus attempts to re-unite with his girlfriend newly arrived from Rome , Claudia (Scilla Gabel) , daughter of the general procurator (Carlo Tamberlani) who governs on these hot , arid fringes of the Empire . They are the six invincible who join forces with a band of rebels and uniting wills against the tyrants and traitors . Meantime , Gaius schemes to murder Marcus and thus hide the true reasons of the slave rebellion . It's an adventure film with all the ingredients as sword-play , action , brawls , comedy , amusement , the typical confrontation between good guys against bad guys and resulting to be pretty entertaining . Brawls and fights both inside and outside the circus come swiftly paced and full of bounds , leaps , hits , punches , knock-outs and in Terence Hill/Spencer style . The film displays some impressive scenes about fights on arena with the magnificent gladiators masked in a wolf-head husk . The picture allows for periods of humor , -as the comic relief is frequently provided by the likable midget- and calm in which to establish characters punctuated by viscerally exciting bursts of action . It stars Roger Browne as the good-manners Tribune Marcus Aulus who has enlightened attitudes and out of favor in Rome because of his alleged sympathy for Christians , as well as Gordon Mitchell , both of them bare their chests . Roger was a likable but mediocre actor who starred some Euro-spy movies and Peplum such as : ¨Three Swords for Rome¨ , ¨The ten gladiators¨ , ¨Pontius Pilatos¨ , ¨Barrabás¨ , ¨Hercules and the Princess of Troy¨ and ¨Mars God of War¨ . And the bouncing Gordon Mitchell considered to be one of the best Peplum actors along with Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott . He-man Gordon was a hunk "beefcake" who made great number of roman epic films also called ¨Musclemen movies¨ . He was one of a number of bodybuilder and physique model types who followed muscleman Steve Reeves out to Italy in the early 60s and won campy notice playing Herculean characters in those campy Italian sand-and-spear epics . The steel-blue-eyes Mitchell proved a phenomenal hit and revived the "muscleman" genre , the non-Italian-speaking Mitchell headed off to Europe and began appearing in the same type of badly dubbed sandal-and-spear epics . He eventually became part of the "Muscle Beach" crowd and flexed his way into the entertainment field as part of Mae West's musclebound revues, where he toured everywhere from Las Vegas to the Latin Quarter with other "abs"normal actor wannabes such as Mickey Hargitay , Brad Harris and Reg Lewis . Ursus, Maciste , Goliath , Samson , Hércules , Atlas , Rocha ... those Italian Muscle man producers must have had a hard time figuring out what to call the musclebound actors who played all these legendary muscleman heroes . Being other second-class Muscle men players the followings : Dan Vadis , Rock Stevens , Samson Burke , Reg Park , Ed Fury , Richard Harrison , Kirk Morris , Alan Steel or Sergio Ciani and subsequently Lou Ferrigno . Nobody, nevertheless , topped Steve Reeves in popularity , though Gordon Scott , Mark Forest and Gordon Mitchell made him an important competence . Born-American Gordon Mitchell was the second American actor bodybuilder , after Steve Reeves , to be recruited by Italian producers to star in sword and sandal films . As Gordon played a lot of Peplum , and adventure movies , such as : ¨Il Gigant Di Metrópolis¨ , ¨Atlas in the land of cyclops¨ , ¨Fury of Achilles¨ , ¨Titan versus Vulcanus¨, ¨Hercules vs. the Sea Monster¨ , ¨The conqueror of Corinto¨ , ¨Sinbad Against the 7 Saracens¨ , among others . Costars other actors usually seen in Peplum and Spaghetti Western as the regular sword-master : Alfio Caltabiano , Carlo Tamberlani , Germano Longo , Mario Novelli , Nello Pazzafini ,and Giacomo Rossi Stuart as Centurion Gaius , a ruthless and corrupt Roman officer who resents when he is substituted ."Seven Slaves Against the World" contains decent production design , brilliant photography , enjoyable soundtrack and amusing action scenes . Including evocative and atmospheric musical score by Francesco De Massi . Besides , a colorful and shining cinematography by Mancori . The motion picture was well directed by Michele Lupo who directed all kinds of genres . As Lupo made Peplum as ¨The Strongest slaves¨ , ¨La vendetta Di Spartacus¨ both of them made at the same time , ¨Seven rebel gladiators¨ ; Westerns as ¨Fistful of knuckles¨ , ¨California¨ , ¨Arizona Colt¨ and Bud Spencer movies as ¨The sheriff and the little extraterrestrial¨ , ¨Bombardero¨ and ¨Buddy goes West¨
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I wish that I, like reviewer Marek, had seen this at the age of 9. I would probably have been delighted by its many bursts of action, its muscular cast, its exotic locations, its handsomely-mounted look. However, while still admiring these virtues, as a grown-up I must point out the serious flaw which handicaps this movie. Call this the "divided hero" flaw. A pre-title sequence introduces us to Gordon Mitchell, a farmer whose refusal to give up his horses to the Romans condemns him to slave-labor on an aqueduct project. Then we meet Roger Browne, a Roman Tribune who seeks to treat slave-laborers in a fair and humane manner. Both these actors get star billing above the title and the script can't decide which one on which to concentrate. Is the movie about Gordon Mitchell's efforts to free himself from Roman bondage so he can return in peace to his farm? Or is the movie about Roger Browne's efforts to clear his name from false charges made by the villainous Gaius, (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart), so he can hold his head high when he marries his Roman fiancée? The movie's confusion about its central purpose is never fully resolved. And then there's that annoying midget. At least there's a lot of beefcake to look at while pondering these matters, though it takes quite awhile before Mitchell and Browne bare their nipples, and Browne's big bare-chest scene, when he sword-fights Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, is, alas, dimly lit.
