Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, also known as Pompey ( /ˈpɒmpiː/) or Pompey the Great (Classical Latin abbreviation: CN·POMPEIVS·CN·F·SEX·N·MAGNVS; September 29, 106 BC – September 29, 48 BC), was a military and political leader of the late Roman Republic. He came from a wealthy Italian provincial background, and established himself in the ranks of Roman nobility by successful leadership in several military campaigns. Sulla addressed him by the cognomen Magnus (the Great), and he was awarded three triumphs.
Pompey joined his rival Marcus Licinius Crassus and his ally Julius Caesar in the unofficial military-political alliance known as the First Triumvirate. The first triumvirate was validated by the marriage between Julia Caesar (daughter of Julius Caesar) and Pompey. After the deaths of Julia and Crassus, Pompey sided with the optimates, the conservative and aristocratic faction of the Roman Senate.
Pompey and Caesar contended for the leadership of the Roman state, leading to a civil war. When Pompey was defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus, he sought refuge in Egypt, where he was assassinated. His career and defeat are significant in Rome's subsequent transformation from Republic to Principate and Empire.
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Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.
Keywords: ambush, ancient-rome, ancient-times, armor, army, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-book, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, battle
Once a slave. Forever a legend.
Spartacus: Live Draba - that is what life is for.
Spartacus: I am not a king. I am something better. A free man.
Crixus: Fighting Romans is like fighting a grist mill. The stone keeps on turning. No matter how many times you attack it, in the end it grinds you down to dust.
David: I will be back...::David: ...and I will be millions!
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When the notorious Diaper Mafia take hostage the Tromaville School for the Very Special, only the Toxic Avenger and his morbidly obese sidekick Lardass can save Tromaville. However, an explosion results in some unforeseeable consequences, creating a dimensional tear between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxic Avenger (Toxie) is trapped in Amortville, Tromaville comes under the control of Toxie's evil doppelganger, the Noxious Offender (Noxie). Will Toxie return to Tromaville in time to stop Noxie's rampage or is he doomed to remain a second-class citizen in Amortville forever? How did Toxie's wife Sarah become pregnant with two babies from two different fathers? Will Tito, the Retarded Rebel, ever get over his teen angst and become a productive member of society?
Keywords: 2000s, abortion, absurd-humor, absurdism, absurdism, actor-playing-multiple-roles, actress-playing-multiple-roles, b-movie, bad-taste-humour, black-comedy
Evil Kabukiman: I had a bad feeling about that crack dealer from day one! I guess you can't trust school kids these days!::Toxie: Crack dealer? Sergeant Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. what are you talking about?::Evil Kabukiman: Sergeant? N.Y.P.D.? What? What's wrong with you, Noxie? Are you selling the crack or you smoking it?
Evil Kabukiman: [to Claire] You read sign language don't you? Well read this! [slaps her].
Sgt. Kabukiman: Well, fuck that, I'm not gonna die. Not here in Jersey!
Tito: Oh, GROSS! This whiskey tastes like pregnant lady piss!
Evil Kabukiman: Hang on Noxie, I can't pass THIS up!
Tito: You are giving me a stomach-ache in my brain!
[after Noxie rips off both his arms]::Tromaville Chief Newman: Stay back everybody! He's armed!
Evil Kabukiman: Damn! They're very slowly getting away!
Tito: Fuck this place, man, I'm outta here.
Tito: I have becomed The Retarted Revenger!::Pompe: Don't forget about your sidekick, Pompe, the baddest bodyless motherfucker in all of Amortville.
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The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled to Australia by ship during the time of the Roman Emperor, Nero.
Keywords: alternative-history, ancient-rome, australian, boy, character-name-in-title, reference-to-nero, roman, time-travel
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When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.
Keywords: based-on-play, shakespeare's-measure-for-measure
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In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to be a christian and is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to death in the arena.
Keywords: ancient-rome, arrow, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-novel, box-office-hit, character-name-in-title, early-christian, execution, gladiator
Goddess of Love in a City of Sin!
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Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she tries to bring support to reforming Bedlam, but the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there. The inmates, however, have the last say.
Keywords: african-american-child, apothecary, aristocrat, asphyxiation, asylum, b-movie, bedlam, big-belly, christian-subtext, cockatoo
Sensational Secrets of Infamous Mad-house EXPOSED! (1946 one-sheet poster)
Lord Mortimer: A capital fellow, this Sims, a capital fellow.::Nell Bowen: If you ask me, M'Lord, he's a stench in the nostrils, a sewer of ugliness, and a gutter brimming with slop.
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Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she tries to bring support to reforming Bedlam, but the cruel Master Sims who runs it has her committed there. The inmates, however, have the last say.
Keywords: african-american-child, apothecary, aristocrat, asphyxiation, asylum, b-movie, bedlam, big-belly, christian-subtext, cockatoo
Sensational Secrets of Infamous Mad-house EXPOSED! (1946 one-sheet poster)
Lord Mortimer: A capital fellow, this Sims, a capital fellow.::Nell Bowen: If you ask me, M'Lord, he's a stench in the nostrils, a sewer of ugliness, and a gutter brimming with slop.
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In a film where the leading character is a composite of several American-frontier lawmen (mostly Wyatt Earp,) Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
Keywords: 1880s, ambush, arizona, black-american-maid, black-american-sidekick, black-heroine, black-woman-kills-white-man, brother, cigarette-smoking, crime-ridden-town
Hear Margot Grahame sing that rousing song of the trail, "Roll Along, Covered Wagon!
Richard DIX in a roaring romance of the Eighties that thrills the blood of 1935!
Richard DIX...as Clay Tallant, slow on the draw but quick on the trigger, he strides the trail to the setting sun in the days of blood and grit and gun smoke!
Richard DIX...in his grandest role, as the two-gun peacemaker of the raw West! (original ad)