Based on every “sword & sandals”  film you have ever seen including “Ben Hur” - “Spartacus” and particularly “Gladiator” . Russellus Crowus (Bennet Thorpe) and  other gladiators:  Bent (David Bateson) and Asparagus (Mike Raffone)  escape from the Gladiator School    only to end up fighting in the Colosseum with a female gladiator , Madonnix (Tina Robinson Hansen) under the evil eye of Caligula, and his sister,  Evilia (Vivienne McKee) -  until finally Bent falls for the charms of the slave girl,  Blondina (Helen Tennison) ,  to the disappointment of The Dame – Salmonella (Andrew Jeffers)