Looking Back
Hot Gallery: The Muscle Men of Sword-and-Sandal Epics
From Kirk Douglas to Jason Momoa, Hollywood has a long history of handing its most fit leading men a sword, some leather cuffs and not much else to vanquish legendary monsters and epic armies for the side of good. With the release of Momoa’s fresh spin on Conan the Barbarian on August 19, Snakkle looks back at some of the silver screen’s most impressive warriors. By Tara Bennett
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Kirk Douglas in Spartacus (1960)
Kirk Douglas’s chiseled turn as Thracian Spartacus, the slave that leads his brethren in revolt against the Romans, is a classic role that continues to inspire modern retellings today in films like Gladiator and TV shows like Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
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