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Kirk Douglas angrily exclaims: why risk your life (meaning hanging for the rape), for something you can buy for 3 bucks at the Florida Bar, (meaning the boys could have been with a bar prostitute for just three dollars, instead of committing the rape they were on trial for and which they could be executed for).

This solid theory was never mentioned in court or used in the defense.

I never saw this movie until recently, but remember the song playing relentlessly on radio in 1961. There are so many holes in the story, I am surprised it is as good as it is even with the flaws. Why didn't each defendant have their own defense lawyer? When Robert Blake tried to hang himself, Kirk Douglas runs out of the room, leaving his "notes" on the table for the reporter to see and use in her newspaper column. Also, why wasn't the "attempted" hanging used during the trial (to show mental illness)? Also, Blakes' impotency should have excluded him from prosecution. When Blake erupts in the courtroom (showing extreme mental distress), Richard Jaeckel holds him down,, (notice how the two men in uniform DELAY their response?). If Blake had obvious mental disorders, why was he even on trial? I guess back in 1960, we prosecuted the mentally ill?

The movie still remains poignant just the same? Larry Anderson.

When I first heard about this title, I thought there would be more to the story that what unfolded. Two Hungarians cross the USA in a cab (I guess they didn't realize how big the country actually was), to visit Former Mr. Universe, (1955), Mickey Hargitay in his California home. They get to the front gate and are turned away. They finally get an interview and talk about Hungary and Mickey's life. I'm not sure how much of the interview is real or just clever editing, so you be the judge. The movie was supposed to be a big slash in filmmaking but ended up on late night TV on a Toronto station. Watchable, but very boring.

After making THE LOVES OF HERCULES, Mickey Hargitay waited 3 years to make this "Gladiator" turkey. They even used the title from a previous Gordon Mitchell movie and ended up with a run-of-the mill ancient Rome Gladiator type movie. The whole story makes very little sense as Mickey Hargitay leads a group of gladiators in a revolt against invading Vandals. This is just a strange mix of left over ideas and stereo types from a few years earlier. Hargitay plays the son of a General who leads his gladiator friends in a counter attack against invading Vandals. Just a lot of running around with very little story. What Hargitay was doing in Rome for 3 years is anybody's guess. Larry Anderson.