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TV, Movie, The Barbarians (1960)
Revak the Rebel (a.k.a. The Barbarians, a.k.a. Rivak the Barbarian) is a 1960 film set in Iberia in the days leading up to the outbreak of the Second Punic War. Jack Palance plays an Iberian prince whose nation and family are so abused by the Carthaginians that he turns to the Romans for help in achieving his revenge.
This film was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin from The Barbarians, a novel written by F. Van Wyck Mason (although making significant changes to the plot like renaming the hero from Cealwyn to Revak and turning him from a Cassiterides Celtic prince to an Iberian prince from fictional Penda island, named after Cealwyn's father in the novel. The film also only followed the first half of the book and was directed by Rudolph Maté.
The film was a pilot for a projected ninety-minute TV series to be called The Barbarians (as it would cover the whole length of the book) which was never picked and got theatrical release out of the US. The film was first released as Rivak the Barbarian or The Barbarians. Revak the Rebel was filmed on location in Italy and it cost NBC $750,000, making it the most expensive pilot ever produced (at the time). The film has been released on as Revak the Rebel by Sinister Cinema, a company specializing on B movies, Z movies, peplums and similar productions
Revak the Rebel (a.k.a. The Barbarians, a.k.a. Rivak the Barbarian) is a 1960 film set in Iberia in the days leading up to the outbreak of the Second Punic War. Jack Palance plays an Iberian prince whose nation and family are so abused by the Carthaginians that he turns to the Romans for help in achieving his revenge.
This film was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Martin Rackin from The Barbarians, a novel written by F. Van Wyck Mason (although making significant changes to the plot like renaming the hero from Cealwyn to Revak and turning him from a Cassiterides Celtic prince to an Iberian prince from fictional Penda island, named after Cealwyn's father in the novel. The film also only followed the first half of the book and was directed by Rudolph Maté.
The film was a pilot for a projected ninety-minute TV series to be called The Barbarians (as it would cover the whole length of the book) which was never picked and got theatrical release out of the US. The film was first released as Rivak the Barbarian or The Barbarians. Revak the Rebel was filmed on location in Italy and it cost NBC $750,000, making it the most expensive pilot ever produced (at the time). The film has been released on as Revak the Rebel by Sinister Cinema, a company specializing on B movies, Z movies, peplums and similar productions
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00:00:21This slab of slate, together with many others, was discovered by an archaeological expedition
00:00:28among the ruins of the ancient Carthaginian city of Bursa, revealed an unknown chapter
00:00:34of the Punic Wars, which were fought between Rome and Carthage, two centuries before Christ.
00:00:44Hannibal, the great Carthaginian, exhausted after three years of struggle, sent his ships
00:00:49everywhere to plunder the supplies he needed to continue the bloody war against Rome.
00:00:54One of these ships, pushing north, approached the Celtic island of Penda and prepared to
00:01:00attack it. Its commander was Canus, chief of the Carthaginian fleet.
00:01:07We will lie here until covered by the darkness of night, and then strike the island of Penda.
00:01:13The Celts are in for quite a surprise. Carthage needs their supplies. Feed the slaves. I shall
00:01:19be in my cabin. Lower sails! Lower sails! Ship force! Ship force!
00:01:36Move you! Come alive there! Wake up!
00:01:57Fuck off!
00:01:59Shikors!
00:02:00aquí
00:02:01Up!
00:02:07up
00:02:16up
00:02:26Hey!
00:02:42Open it! Open the park!
00:02:44Come back here, you! Get back!
00:02:46Grab the arm!
00:02:49Grab the arm!
00:02:50Come on, you!
00:02:51Get back here!
00:02:53Get up, get up there!
00:03:05End up.
00:03:17why bring this filth into my quarters this slave broke his chain and strangled a guard what
00:03:23hot blood you have you ignoble creature did you think to overcome my ship
00:03:27what have they already cut out your tongue you'll never conquer the celts you carthaginian swine
00:03:31you speak well of these celts you must know this country i am a celt captured in a raid on
00:03:39the
00:03:39island of the cassarites i hope they all fight as heartily as you my stupid friend it has been a
00:03:44month since my sword last tasted blood had i been fortunate enough to warn them of your arrival on
00:03:49the island of penda they would have killed you all well spoken you have a good voice you speak loud
00:03:55and clear and your warning would have rung loud and clear had you been fortunate enough to swim my
00:04:01sure this is carthaginian wine heady and strong it clears the throat and mellows the voice
00:04:09but we have another better carthaginian drink that also helps the voice prepare the drink of gold
00:04:38is the gold yet ready fill the iron goblet
00:05:04i toast you celt drink deeply of the golden wine
00:05:21toss him overboard
00:05:22what
00:05:23i am
00:05:24i am
00:05:24i am
00:08:03Peace had reigned for many years on the island, and life flowed serenely.
00:08:10Only a weak echo of the ferocious war between Rome and Carthage reached these shores.
00:08:16The rarest news brought by a passing ship.
00:08:22Peace and labor had, as always, generated abundance.
00:08:41But someone had decided that the best way to employ the fruits of peace was to wage war.
00:08:47This someone was Carthage.
00:08:51I'm sorry.
00:09:07I'm sorry.
00:09:10I'm sorry.
00:09:17I'm sorry.
00:09:18I'm sorry.
00:09:32I'm sorry.
00:09:36I'm sorry.
00:09:41Can you feel like this?
00:09:41Come on.
00:09:42Oh, my God.
00:10:12Oh, my God.
00:10:56Oh, my God.
00:10:59Let me go! Let me go!
00:11:03Oh, God! Help!
00:11:06Help me!
00:11:37I'm sorry!
00:11:47I wanna go!
00:11:49I'm sorry!
00:11:52I'm sorry!
00:11:54I'm sorry!
00:12:15Kneel, you Celtic dog.
00:12:16No Celt bows to a plunderer.
00:12:18Silence.
00:12:19If we speak, my son, speak then, before I slaughter them.
00:12:26Is there more to your attack than mere pillage?
00:12:28Carthage is at war with Rome.
00:12:31I have come to make a treaty.
00:12:33Death rather than servitude!
00:12:35Hold your tongue, or by the godmother, few shall have your wish.
00:12:45For myself I ask nothing, but I beg mercy for my son and daughter,
00:12:50and for the people of my island.
00:12:53You will agree to a ransom.
00:12:55All your support for two years,
00:12:59in return for the lives of your people.
00:13:05I...
00:13:07I do so agree.
00:13:11We shall also take your hot-tempered offspring as hostages,
00:13:14should you think of betraying us.
00:13:16A Celt's word is bounden up.
00:13:17Only a fool buys the word of a barbarian.
00:13:22You will leave me little.
00:13:24Little?
00:13:25Their lives and their safe return,
00:13:28should you fulfill your promise and supply the needs of our guards.
00:13:33We shall leave a garrison to protect you and this island.
00:13:38How long will my son and daughter be held?
00:13:43Two years.
00:13:45Then you can have back your litter.
00:13:47Take them away.
00:13:49No!
00:13:52Look after your sister, my son.
00:13:54I promise that you'll keep your peace.
00:13:56Rest easy, my father.
00:13:57As long as these devils keep our trust.
00:14:00We shall fight our time!
00:14:02I do it!
00:14:03Never let's do it!
00:14:30Look at the finest of the work, the warmth, the metal.
00:14:34Who would think these cold-blooded Celts could produce such?
00:14:37I'll wager that old king's daughter has fire in her blood.
00:14:42I'm of a mind to become acquainted with its warmth.
00:14:45Best dull your thoughts with more wine, Commander.
00:14:48She's a king's daughter, a royal hostage we hold in trust.
00:14:51And I am a noble of Carthage.
00:14:54Fetch her here, along with that scowling brother of hers.
00:14:58I'll observe the amenities and ask his permission.
00:15:01What of Hannibal?
00:15:02Hannibal?
00:15:03You know his orders in these matters.
00:15:04Hannibal will be years throwing himself against the walls of Rome.
00:15:08And I rule Carthage in his absence.
00:15:11Fetch the barbarian wench at once.
00:15:26Please, Rivek, you must resign yourself.
00:15:29To pace up and down like a caged animal.
00:15:31Two years under the heels of these decadent Carthaginians.
00:15:36It is little enough sacrifice for our people.
00:15:40For myself, whatever might happen means nothing.
00:15:43But you, you are young, a girl.
00:15:48I fear nothing.
00:15:50I have you, brother.
00:15:59Canis summons you both.
00:16:01For what reason?
00:16:03The wish is upon him.
00:16:04It is better to listen and obey.
00:16:07It is for you to grovel.
00:16:09You who wear his insignia.
00:16:13Come, Kriota.
00:16:31Well, my peat bog princess, doesn't our form of gaiety meet with your approval?
00:16:36You summoned us.
00:16:37Perhaps you will oblige.
00:16:39Did your kingly father teach you to dance and to entertain men?
00:16:42You ignoble pig.
00:16:43We are hostages, not slaves.
00:16:45Aboard my ship on an ocean conquered by Carthage, you dare flap your tongue at me?
00:16:49Or do you wish it removed?
00:16:51No, no.
00:16:52Please, brother, please.
00:16:53I'm not afraid of a calf who must be primed with wine before he has the insides of a bull.
00:16:57Here you are.
00:16:58Bind him to the mast.
00:17:00Sit down.
00:17:03Sit down, my brother.
00:17:06Dance.
00:17:07Be time for this fair-skinned wildcat.
00:17:10Stand back so that I can observe her artistly.
00:17:13Now entertain us, princess, for I entertain you.
00:17:26Move.
00:17:38Hold fast.
00:17:45Drop that dagger.
00:17:47Drop it!
00:18:01You'll dance better without your claws, little tigress.
00:18:07Dance now.
00:18:08I'll place your brother's head at your feet.
00:18:10Start the drum.
00:18:35Little really.
00:18:38The beat is broken down.
00:18:42The beat is broken down.
00:18:53Display you have the same toy line.
00:18:54Save him.
00:18:57ecracker.
00:18:58The beat is broken down.
00:19:00The beat is broken down.
00:19:01Game over.
00:19:02Hey, to tinh estaban habe.
00:19:03Paper is called the operation.
00:19:04See you stupid to turn off the path so that your bought something.
00:19:22Come, Princess, we shall dance alone.
00:19:29Rather than a stain upon our house.
00:19:33Good-bye, brother.
00:19:38Someone stop her!
00:19:43Get down! Get her!
00:19:51She'd have been a dribbling nuisance anyway.
00:19:55Put him on the oars.
00:20:01Let's go.
00:20:18Carthage.
00:20:19Always a welcome sight.
00:20:26Will we have a few days' rest, Commander?
00:20:29Not until we inspect the rest of the fleet at the pillars of Melkart.
00:20:32We'll exchange these worn-out galley slaves for a fresh group and sail immediately.
00:20:37Make ready to put into the key.
00:20:41Stand still!
00:20:42Out, oars!
00:20:45Out, oars!
00:20:47And oars!
00:20:56Play two!
00:21:04You scum!
00:21:13Help me.
00:21:15Fire!
00:21:16Fire!
00:21:23Fire!
00:21:45Move!
00:21:46Move!
00:21:50A fresh crew comes aboard within the hour, Your Excellency.
00:21:53Make sure they are primed.
00:21:55Move!
00:21:57Well!
00:22:00Well!
00:22:02Still alive and kicking, eh?
00:22:05I thought the voyage might have calmed your princely exuberance.
00:22:09Canis,
00:22:10best let him finish me now,
00:22:12as I swear that someday I shall strangle you in your own blood.
00:22:18Pirate, you!
00:22:19No, a noble statement.
00:22:21Let him plan upon it and savour it for a while.
00:22:24In that event, he must die slowly.
00:22:27I know your ability in such matters is that.
00:22:30Just see that his mind remains clear to the last.
00:22:34It shall be done, Commander.
00:22:36Would I return in time to hear your last screams for mercy?
00:22:41Take him away!
00:22:44Take him away!
00:23:09Doer of good deeds.
00:23:10I have a decoration for you.
00:23:28Your necklace of nobility.
00:23:30Now we shall acquaint you with your privileges.
00:23:53Forward, you swine!
00:23:55Forward!
00:23:59You swine!
00:24:01Get back, dog!
00:24:03Get back!
00:24:05Get back!
00:24:08No!
00:24:10No!
00:24:12No!
00:24:13No!
00:24:16No!
00:24:17No!
00:24:22No!
00:24:30No!
00:24:32No!
00:24:37No!
00:24:39No!
00:24:40No!
00:24:43No!
00:24:45No!
00:24:46I wish to observe.
00:25:01Now, my Moloch, the orders of Canis are not...
00:25:04I'll be destined to this darkness.
00:25:09Stop.
00:25:13Stop it, I think.
00:25:18Bring that slave to me.
00:25:22At once, Highness.
00:25:40What slave is this?
00:25:42A barbarian coach, Your Highness.
00:25:44And like a wild animal, he needs taming.
00:25:49Your struggle pleased me.
00:25:53My household needs bravery.
00:26:03I fear he does not understand the custom, Highness.
00:26:07Kiss the foot of the Princess Tarotha!
00:26:10Son of Pender kisses the foot of no woman.
00:26:14Least of all that of a Carthaginian cat.
00:26:17Enough!
00:26:17No!
00:26:21So...
00:26:23Your stubbornness interests me, barbarian.
00:26:26It should be tested to buy something worth its mettle.
00:26:32Take him to the household compound.
00:26:34Have him shaved and fed and otherwise refreshed.
00:26:37I'll then advise you as to his further disposition.
00:26:42Go.
00:26:48Till then, barbarian.
00:26:56Come with me.
00:26:57Come with me.
00:27:14Well, was the fruitless brawl worth it?
00:27:17No man with pride need answer that.
00:27:22Perhaps you can answer better when you find out what the Princess Tarotha has in mind for you.
00:27:27Nothing could be more ignoble than to be lashed to death by a slovenly pig.
00:27:32By all my Greek gods, how I agree with you.
00:27:36Greek?
00:27:40You are not Carthaginian then?
00:27:42Oh, heaven forbid the thought.
00:27:43My men and I are mercenaries from Sparta.
00:27:47Oh, yes.
00:27:49Now get it.
00:27:50I have heard tell of men who...
00:27:53who sell their swords.
00:27:56Better than to find myself in your position.
00:28:06War!
00:28:08War!
00:28:22The rides jump from their sockets, eh?
00:28:24I have never seen such a fortress.
00:28:27The greatest state of Edible.
00:28:28The heart of Carthage.
00:28:32No Roman legion shall ever pierce its walls.
00:28:35And it needs these strong walls to guard the hatred and the evil that wallows within them.
00:28:40You bear arms for such people.
00:28:43We'll be done with your noble cheer, you doomed lout.
00:28:46I'll be well rid of you.
00:28:56War!
00:28:58War!
00:29:01War!
00:29:01War!
00:29:02War!
00:29:02Get him up!
00:29:03In a moment!
00:29:04Come on.
00:29:05Up!
00:29:05Up!
00:29:06What manner of monster is that?
00:29:09An elephant.
00:29:10Hanelwell brought one hundred of them from his conquests at the eastern rim of the world.
00:29:14They are with him now in his assault on Rome.
00:29:17Keep them steady now.
00:29:18One of the most destructive machines of war ever they've died.
00:29:20But yet of flesh and bone.
00:29:22Oh, tons of it.
00:29:24He steps on you, you become pomegranate jelly.
00:29:28Well, my old Roman renegade.
00:29:31Still insolent in your trusted position?
00:29:33Young captain like curses seems out of temper.
00:29:37Is it perhaps because he and his mercenaries haven't been paid yet?
00:29:40Oh, we need none of your pity, old clown.
00:29:42Though perhaps this fellow does.
00:29:44Uh, what large lump of carrion have you brought me now?
00:29:49At least he has courage.
00:29:51He defied abasance to the princess Taratha herself.
00:29:53She wishes him shaved, refreshed and fed.
00:29:56For what's our end, I cannot guess.
00:29:58But knowing that you claim no slave has spirit, I have brought him to you for the task.
00:30:03To defy the princess Taratha's spirit only from here.
00:30:06Real courage comes from the belly.
00:30:08And I'll prove to you that he has none.
00:30:20Fetch me that stick.
00:30:24He is a slave too. Does he command me?
00:30:27In his position, yes.
00:30:31Already his spine turns to water.
00:30:33I told you so.
00:30:50I told you so.
00:31:03Find your voice and cry enough.
00:31:08Only to curse you!
00:31:10Only to curse you!
00:31:26Now how do you plead?
00:31:30Or shall I ask him to make your head into a large, wet coin?
00:31:34With a face on both sides?
00:31:37If that is my destiny.
00:31:41You've run against a stone wall, Varo.
00:31:44Aye, and a staunch one.
00:31:46I should discover what lies beyond it.
00:31:48I leave you to your sport.
00:32:23First we shall clean the surface.
00:32:27Come.
00:32:45You've had your meal, enough.
00:32:47It was a temptation.
00:32:49To your palate now, I wish to talk.
00:32:51Till the morning, sirs!
00:32:56Where does the boy come from?
00:32:58Eh?
00:32:59Oh, Babu.
00:33:00He came with the elephants from the Eastern Rim.
00:33:04The merry one.
00:33:05For a slave.
00:33:07That's the only thing he knows.
00:33:09But he's quick as a hummingbird.
00:33:11He'd steal the eyes out of an eel.
00:33:14A useful lad for the future, perhaps.
00:33:18What future?
00:33:21Why do you think I tried to make you grovel today?
00:33:26I am at a loss.
00:33:28I had heard Romans upheld dignity and justice.
00:33:31I thought perhaps the disgrace of your captivity had affected your mind.
00:33:35And reduced me to the evil and cruelty of our captors?
00:33:38No.
00:33:40Never shall Valo Aurelius, once captain of a Roman legion,
00:33:43ever forget that he was born of the greatness that is Rome.
00:33:48But I am in disgrace, yes.
00:33:51But I am no longer a Roman citizen, I admit.
00:33:54Why?
00:33:56Are you not still a Roman as I am still a Celt and a son of Panda?
00:34:01No.
00:34:03There was a battle to the north.
00:34:05My legion, among others, faced the advanced armies of Hannibal.
00:34:10Though we were outnumbered nearly five to one, we held for a while.
00:34:15By Mars, how my men fought. To the death they fought.
00:34:19But I had the disgrace to be disarmed and captured.
00:34:25Disgrace?
00:34:26When you fought as well as you could?
00:34:28In her hour of trial, Rome, injustice must be severe.
00:34:33Those of us that were captured were deprived of our citizenship.
00:34:37We can regain it only by escaping and returning to accept the penalty that goes with it.
00:34:43Our death.
00:34:47Surely you have no wish to return.
00:34:49It's the only wish left me.
00:34:51Because even though I die, once again, I'll be a Roman citizen.
00:34:57The most cherished thing I know.
00:35:06I sit with a man.
00:35:10Beyond your freedom, is there nothing that you cherish, my friend?
00:35:17Two things.
00:35:20The liberation of my father and my country through the defeat of Carthage.
00:35:24And the other.
00:35:27The chance to face Canis, commander of the fleet.
00:35:32Him I must destroy.
00:35:34If free, you're sworn to that.
00:35:36On the soul of my dead sister.
00:35:41I too sit with a man.
00:35:45You shall escape with me.
00:35:48But take more than ourselves, but there are more.
00:35:51Nearly three score in the estate and compounds.
00:35:55And we have a very valuable ally.
00:35:57Who?
00:35:58You're with us then.
00:35:59To my last breath with the ally.
00:36:04I have that honor.
00:36:08Well.
00:36:10He's passed the test like curses.
00:36:13And what's more, I see the qualities of leadership in him.
00:36:15Well, never mind that yet.
00:36:16He has still to pass another test.
00:36:18For tomorrow night, the princess has made arrangements with the master of the games.
00:36:23He is set to fight Belaus as to a finish.
00:36:30I fight who?
00:36:33Belaus is the gladiator.
00:36:35He's broken the backs of his last 20 opponents.
00:36:40And you talk to me of freedom.
00:36:44The dream might be short lived.
00:36:48That is true, Rivac.
00:36:50So first, it must remain to be seen whether or not, after tomorrow night, you are still alive.
00:37:10You are not going to be a priest.
00:37:27The man is a body of four.
00:37:27Are you sure?
00:37:29They are not going to be seen in the city.
00:37:33I am not going to be a man.
00:37:35I am not going to be a man.
00:37:35I mean to be a man.
00:37:36I am sorry.
00:40:07Oh, come Valeria, the daughter of Antonio Octavius possesses more spirit than that.
00:40:13I long for Rome and my family, but each day it grows farther and farther, faces grow dim.
00:40:22If it weren't for you and the hopes you hold, I think I would die.
00:40:25You are young, Valeria, but I promise you as I promised myself that our time will come, and each day
00:40:31my hopes grow stronger, and I have a feeling that the Celt might be our answer.
00:40:38Our answer, in a few moments he may be lying in a pool of his own blood, dead, on the
00:40:44floor.
00:40:44You've seen men die before?
00:40:47Too many.
00:40:49The weak who die were perhaps not meant to be with us.
00:40:54If the Celt dies, we must not lose heart.
00:40:59He must not die.
00:41:27He must not die.
00:41:27Ah, such determination.
00:41:27Excellencies, with your permission, the choicest moment of the evening.
00:41:35Beliases, the gladiator, will meet in mortal combat a slave chosen worthy of his prowess.
00:41:59Princess, permit me to wager a thousand dollars on Beliases, in your name.
00:42:05He is ten to one favorite.
00:42:09Then I wager you a thousand to ten thousand.
00:42:13I choose the sleeve.
00:42:16Surely you jest.
00:42:18Do you wish to honor my wager?
00:42:20I would contribute to your entertainment, your highness, but I fear you must surely lose.
00:42:26You have heard my wager. One thousand to ten.
00:42:30Done, your highness.
00:42:30You will fight to the end, with no quarter given or asked.
00:42:36The signal to commence will be a nod from the Princess Tirada.
00:43:00I will help you.
00:43:01Hel sost alarm.
00:43:10He's a coward like all the other Kelp.
00:43:37He's a coward.
00:44:15Oh
00:44:41He has done in the champion I gave him no chance at all
00:44:49You're right now looking at more men
00:44:54Then you shall ever know
00:44:59Captain
00:44:59Your wish princess
00:45:01Have the barbarian made presentable
00:45:04And brought to my quarters at midnight
00:45:07As you desire princess
00:45:21Our dream is one step closer
00:45:25Follow me
00:45:46Halt
00:45:46The princess Tarapha has committed the slave to my care
00:45:49I will take him to her
00:45:51You may leave
00:45:59I saw you win over Melias's tonight
00:46:02I hope you were entertained
00:46:05My heart was with you in every moment
00:46:07Oh, true Carthaginian sentiments
00:46:10Carthaginian?
00:46:11I am a Roman
00:46:12And a friend of Varos
00:46:14Varos is no friend of mine
00:46:16He is nothing but an elephant
00:46:18Rebek, listen
00:46:19There is little time
00:46:20I know your dream is the same as ours
00:46:22Dreams
00:46:23Everything is dreams
00:46:24Is there no time for doing things?
00:46:27Of course there is a time
00:46:28But our opportunity must not be spent foolishly
00:46:30When we strike it must be swift and sure
00:46:32Or we will all be dead
00:46:36How long have you been waiting?
00:46:38Two years
00:46:40Two years of servitude
00:46:42Bowing and scraping
00:46:43And always remembering that the right time would come
00:46:45When the right man could lead us
00:46:49Why suddenly does everyone look to me as the right man?
00:46:54I looked to you the first moment I saw you on the waterfront
00:46:59I've never met a man who
00:47:04What is it?
00:47:06I'm sorry to have shown such weakness
00:47:11Look
00:47:12I don't understand
00:47:15You must not keep her waiting
00:47:17Pharaoh holds much hope in you
00:47:25And you?
00:47:26As a Roman
00:47:27I must never let hope die
00:47:37Perhaps our time will be soon
00:47:39Rivac
00:47:40Carthage is no longer unbearable
00:47:42Now that you are here
00:47:46There
00:48:10Come closer, Barbarian
00:48:11My name is Rivac
00:48:13My name is Rivac
00:48:14Prince of Penda
00:48:18Very well
00:48:19Then I shall know you as such
00:48:22Leave me
00:48:28Would you come closer
00:48:31Rivac
00:48:41Did you know why you fought tonight?
00:48:44I fought simply to stay alive
00:48:46Well said
00:48:47And that is why I arranged it, Rivac
00:48:49At least to save you
00:48:51From the Corbett
00:48:54From then on
00:48:55You were on your own
00:48:58And you proved my faith
00:49:00How mightily you proved it
00:49:02Then for the chance to live
00:49:03At least
00:49:04I am beholden to you
00:49:12I expect no payment of tribute
00:49:19Other than what you might wish to give
00:49:22Freely
00:49:26And that I might wish
00:49:31To return in kind
00:49:35Come
00:49:36I would be pleased if you were
00:49:39More comfortable
00:49:43Your pets
00:49:44Don't seem to agree
00:49:47Stupid creatures
00:49:48And they are lulled
00:49:50Their jealousy
00:49:51Is flattering though
00:49:59They were afraid
00:50:00You were going to touch me
00:50:02Was that your intention, Rivac?
00:50:05To put your hands upon me?
00:50:10Now that we are alone
00:50:12Say what you will
00:50:15Or am I too repulsive to touch
00:50:17My barbarian
00:50:22Is this the pulse of hatred I feel?
00:50:26Or is it one of still greater victory
00:50:28Within your grasp?
00:50:33A man would be made of stone
00:50:42You are truly a barbarian
00:50:50Oh, put that thing away
00:50:51I must practice
00:50:52Well?
00:50:53He is still within her compartments
00:50:56Maybe he defied her again
00:50:57And she had him drawn and quartered
00:50:58No, then I or one of my men
00:51:00Would have been notified
00:51:00We'd have had news of the body
00:51:02Aye, perhaps she's making him
00:51:03Show her again
00:51:04How he killed the gladiator
00:51:06And watching his movements
00:51:08Like a cat
00:51:09Shut up, you young raghead
00:51:10I'm off to bed with you
00:51:11Oh, I know, right?
00:51:12No
00:51:17And now let's say
00:51:18What's in our minds, my friend
00:51:21The blood runs strong in that Celt
00:51:24And after what he's been through
00:51:25Who could blame him?
00:51:26But what if he succumbs to her
00:51:28And takes the easy life
00:51:30And takes the easy life she might offer from now on
00:51:31Then where do we stand?
00:51:34When he shall die
00:51:36Before he has a chance to betray us
00:51:44Rivek
00:51:49Look at me, Rivek
00:51:53Tell me
00:51:55Tell me
00:51:56In words this time
00:52:00That you have never met a woman such as I
00:52:04You have told it
00:52:05That simply
00:52:09Oh, no
00:52:11More
00:52:12As a man
00:52:14A man
00:52:19A slave
00:52:20In debt for every breath within my body
00:52:31I will never give you time to think of that
00:52:37Because I, in turn, shall be your slave
00:52:45I am changing her embrace
00:52:51Look
00:52:54Look
00:52:55Look, you wear this circuit with my insignia
00:52:57So that you can enter and leave the palace at will
00:53:04No one will dare question you
00:53:06And what
00:53:08Formal duties would you assign me?
00:53:12Keeper of your perfumes?
00:53:15No
00:53:16Tender of your incense pots?
00:53:19By malach, take care
00:53:27Are you
00:53:28Are you not content to be keeper of my heart's flame?
00:53:32It may consume even you
00:53:43Strange at this hour
00:53:45I left, Otis
00:53:47Who calls
00:53:49A messenger from his excellency, your highness
00:53:51Bid him stay
00:53:55I must receive this messenger now
00:53:57And
00:53:58And for the moment
00:53:59We must be discreet, my love
00:54:00Wait
00:54:02Wait
00:54:03Wait in the shadows
00:54:11Until I'm read of him
00:54:16So
00:54:28I think
00:54:40I think
00:54:43Well?
00:54:46I've ridden hard and long by special order, Your Highness.
00:54:49From whom?
00:54:49From Canis, your noble brother.
00:54:52The fleet has won a great victory over the Romans at the pillars of Melcart.
00:54:56His ship will arrive ahead of the others on the second morning's tide.
00:55:03Loaded with vast treasure.
00:55:05He wishes you to arrange a fitting celebration for the following day.
00:55:09Canis.
00:55:13Again triumphant.
00:55:16I shall declare a holiday to end all.
00:55:23You may leave.
00:55:43You must go now, my wondrous lover.
00:55:47I have much to sleep upon.
00:55:49I could not but hear. Canis, your brother.
00:55:54Yes.
00:55:56Yes, he is clever.
00:55:58But most demanding in his public festivities.
00:56:01But you wear my circlet now and I'll be waiting for you tomorrow after night for me.
00:56:04Wouldn't it be more discreet?
00:56:07If better, if it were more private.
00:56:12A secret entrance, perhaps.
00:56:17My barbarian.
00:56:19A shy one.
00:56:22Here, I'll show you how to come to me.
00:56:25Through here, you may always enter and lead.
00:56:28So that no one will see you.
00:56:32This is our secret.
00:56:45When you wish to enter, pull this.
00:56:48Wonder upon wonder.
00:56:50Through this passage, you may enter from the terrace.
00:56:54And where does this other passage lead?
00:56:58Hannibal himself designed Edible.
00:57:01Should Carver ever be attacked by a land which is now beyond the realm of thought,
00:57:05this passage leads down to the water's edge.
00:57:07Near the quay?
00:57:08Yes, directly to it.
00:57:09So that the royal family might escape by sea.
00:57:13But it is not escape I think of now.
00:57:16Until tomorrow, my love.
00:57:23I'm held here by dreams I never knew.
00:57:29And will await their fulfillment.
00:57:35Always.
00:57:43I'm held here.
00:57:59Too bad.
00:58:06Roman luck.
00:58:11Well, we wondered if we'd ever see you again.
00:58:19Ah.
00:58:21I see you wear the princess's insignia.
00:58:23A gift.
00:58:25Or something appropriated as a souvenir.
00:58:28Or perhaps a decoration.
00:58:31For a prowess.
00:58:33I'll take none of your plaguing.
00:58:38I am no boy.
00:58:40No beardless one with round eyes.
00:58:43And the princess Taratha, no matter how much you might condemn me, is soft.
00:58:50And firm.
00:58:52And rich to the senses.
00:58:55A lovely woman to be embraced.
00:59:03I would be a fool to deny it.
00:59:10I, uh...
00:59:11I gather there was no threat of torture.
00:59:14Of what need?
00:59:16And what is your station now?
00:59:19The highest.
00:59:20The most favored possible.
00:59:27And your life here could be one of comfort and ease.
00:59:31No more loving and being treated like an animal.
00:59:33For as long as I wish.
00:59:36It's difficult to turn one's head from such a future.
00:59:40Hmm.
00:59:42She is the sister of Canis.
00:59:45The vilest dog ever given life and whom I have sworn to destroy.
00:59:50Just as all Carthage must be destroyed when we have regained our freedom and reached our homelands to help rally
00:59:55them for the common struggle.
00:59:57If it means her life too then.
01:00:05And Taratha's fate is in the laps of her gods.
01:00:10Well spoken.
01:00:12If we bide our time, our forces gathered.
01:00:14Have patience, then the time will come.
01:00:16Patience!
01:00:17There is no need for it. The time is now.
01:00:20What? Now?
01:00:22Are you bewitched after all?
01:00:23Listen to me.
01:00:25Canis returns tomorrow on the morning second tide from the pillars of Melkart.
01:00:29His ship will dock alone on the quay.
01:00:31We must strike before he sees me and learns by my new station or the time will be never.
01:00:37And listen carefully. There is a way it can be done.
01:00:41Look.
01:00:43Look, I will show you.
01:00:47The quay.
01:00:49Ship.
01:00:51Here.
01:00:54...
01:01:11Reveciler?
01:01:13I thought you were asleep.
01:01:17Sleep?
01:01:17Sleep.
01:01:21My mind tumbles with thoughts of tomorrow.
01:01:24Once again, I hear the cry of battle in my blood,
01:01:27and I wish for the strength of a hundred men.
01:01:29Is that not true of all men before they face the enemy?
01:01:32The doubts, the weighing as of once shortcomings?
01:01:36Surely a career such as yours
01:01:37must have experienced this many times.
01:01:40Men, yes.
01:01:43But what keeps you awake, my friend?
01:01:45Why are you not asleep?
01:01:46Are you two imagining tomorrow in your mind?
01:01:56Who is Valeria?
01:01:59What a fool I am.
01:02:01I'd envisioned you plotting sword thrusts
01:02:03and cutting down Carthaginians.
01:02:06But romantic games are living in your head.
01:02:09Who is she?
01:02:11The daughter of a Roman noble, my oldest friend.
01:02:13She possesses great spirit.
01:02:16And great beauty.
01:02:18Surely that did not escape your eyes.
01:02:20That thought need not worry you.
01:02:22There are other thoughts that plague me.
01:02:25War comes from the hand that holds the sword,
01:02:28not from the heart.
01:02:30Tomorrow can only happen once.
01:02:32One moment of weakness, one man's hesitation,
01:02:36could condemn us all to failure.
01:02:38Speak in shadows, Marrow.
01:02:40Say what is on your mind.
01:02:44Taratha.
01:02:45What of Taratha?
01:02:47You denounced her.
01:02:49Yet you do not sleep.
01:02:53My restlessness need not disturb your slumber, my friend.
01:02:57I have told you what I feel.
01:02:59And I know clearly what my duty is.
01:03:02But you paste the compound for three turns of the hourglass.
01:03:08What troubles you, Rivek?
01:03:11The insanity of it all.
01:03:13That by a twist of fate, Carthage should be my enemy.
01:03:17And that Taratha should stand for Carthage.
01:03:20That we are all so built.
01:03:24Because one's blood represents a country or a heritage,
01:03:29we must ally ourselves with our sworn pledges and hate.
01:03:36Even though they themselves are not responsible for being born what they are.
01:03:44And when?
01:03:48When barrowed men become of age and not have to hate and destroy
01:03:53only because of a place of birth,
01:03:55or because they bear the name a Roman,
01:03:57or a Gothagilian,
01:04:00or...
01:04:01Yes.
01:04:04Gelt.
01:04:08Noble words, my friend.
01:04:11But for the future, perhaps.
01:04:14Tomorrow, in a matter of hours,
01:04:16is part of the present.
01:04:21Good night, Rivek.
01:04:47Good night, Rivek.
01:04:59Go to the end of this passageway and wait.
01:05:01Rivek,
01:05:02we are all in your debt.
01:05:05But we are not yet away from Carthage.
01:05:09Go.
01:05:09Rivek,
01:05:10no matter what happens,
01:05:11I'll always be grateful that I've met a man like you.
01:05:15You will meet a lot of men.
01:05:18And one day,
01:05:19it will be the right one.
01:05:20There is something I must say to you now, Rivek,
01:05:22lest I never get the chance to say it again.
01:05:25From the moment I saw you,
01:05:27I became a woman.
01:05:28And no matter what happens to me now,
01:05:30I shall always be happy for it.
01:05:34Valeria.
01:05:38No heart in Carthage or in Rome
01:05:40could beat more proudly than mine does now
01:05:42for the faith you have in me.
01:05:44I will show you Rome, Rivek.
01:05:46My father will give you men to return to Penda
01:05:48and free your country.
01:05:50He'll give you a legion,
01:05:51tall and straight and strong.
01:05:54Oh.
01:05:56Oh, I bet I could show you, Penda.
01:05:59Unlike this part of the world,
01:06:01it is rich with huge trees.
01:06:04Its rocky coast feels the pounding of the surf.
01:06:08Its air is crisp and cool.
01:06:13And my people sing.
01:06:16I hope one day you will ask me to see it with you, Rivek.
01:06:21You must go now to the end of the passageway.
01:06:25Go!
01:06:26Go!
01:06:42You are here.
01:06:44I have been here in thought all day, Your Highness.
01:06:48And you fessent my jewels.
01:06:52You have a touch with words as well.
01:06:55Leave them.
01:07:07I have a little time before Ikeda's ship arrives.
01:07:12And I would spend it only with you.
01:07:13Yeah.
01:07:14I don't.
01:07:15I don't.
01:07:25I don't.
01:07:28I don't.
01:07:37I don't.
01:08:14Halt zurück.
01:08:18Weiter.
01:09:06What detachment is there?
01:09:08A change of guard for the festivities tonight. Princess Tarotha's orders, open the gates.
01:09:13I receive no word of any such change, Captain Lycarsus.
01:09:17Dare you challenge me?
01:09:18Open, I say.
01:09:20Open the gates.
01:09:33Alarm!
01:09:38In the sin of the strength you know ìin solo blows up the floor.-
01:09:54Didn't assume that's not when you see a the power, okay?
01:09:56The Mantra was down here for a year, of course.
01:09:56I am on the violin board.
01:09:57Oh!
01:09:57Do not leave a connection me to the glass.
01:09:57Wanna be an instance?
01:09:58Yeah!
01:10:06They look adamant they are on top.
01:10:15Oh, my God.
01:10:37Oh, my God.
01:11:15Oh, my God.
01:11:42Oh, my God.
01:11:49Oh, my God.
01:11:58Oh, my God.
01:12:10Oh, my God.
01:12:23Oh, my God.
01:12:32Oh, my God.
01:12:32Oh, my God.
01:13:20Oh, my God.
01:13:22Oh, my God.
01:13:22Oh, my God.
01:13:25Oh, my God.
01:13:40Oh, my God.
01:13:47Oh, my God.
01:13:48Oh, it goes well, Rebeck, it goes well.
01:13:49Aye.
01:13:50It goes well.
01:13:51Where now? There's no time.
01:13:53Over here.
01:13:56This passage!
01:13:57Stay to the right. It needs to be the key on the water's edge
01:13:59where Canis' ship will be arriving any moment now.
01:14:02Come on, follow me!
01:14:03Lift me now!
01:14:05Freedom is within our class!
01:14:08Hold thou!
01:14:11Rebeck, she must die.
01:14:13It is for me to do.
01:14:15She is the sister of Canis.
01:14:20I will join you on the key.
01:14:22Quickly, then.
01:14:29I should have known not to trust a burgherian.
01:14:32Carthage must be destroyed.
01:14:34Destroy me first.
01:14:36Now, I think of you kill me
01:14:39since I was foolish enough to love you.
01:14:42Let us complete the mockery.
01:14:45The mockery is that I can never forget you.
01:14:48Nor shall I ever wish to try.
01:14:53Let the memory stay clear and sweet, Tarafa.
01:14:56There are few enough in this world.
01:15:15But, of course.
01:15:21We shall die!
01:15:21.
01:15:22.
01:15:23ahял
01:15:26Oh!
01:15:27.
01:15:41a
01:15:41I
01:15:41I
01:15:41I
01:15:41I
01:15:44I
01:15:44I
01:15:45How I've waited for this glorious hour
01:15:53Throw out those lines
01:15:56Easy there easy now ah to finally step ashore on the go to the delights. I have promised myself
01:16:07Wait here until it's safe
01:16:10Where is we back there? He comes now
01:16:20Look well my friend our ship of freedom we must first command the key
01:16:25Then if my signal we rush the vessel
01:16:29Quietly now come
01:16:52Let's go
01:16:53Babu once on board you'll free the poor wretches at the oars to open the loxis child's flame
01:16:58My sword is beginning to breathe again
01:17:01No one may touch cadres. He is pledged to me
01:17:05Take cover
01:17:14He's gone
01:17:15The barge, over here
01:17:17The barge over here
01:17:19The barge over here
01:17:42Come on.
01:17:43Over here.
01:18:15Over here.
01:18:17All four, now we have the voice.
01:18:24No!
01:18:26Come on over here.
01:18:40Oh, my God.
01:19:07You Celtic dog, not you.
01:19:10Yes, Canis.
01:19:13You wished to return in time to hear my last screams, didn't you?
01:19:17That I should sew dirty this blade.
01:19:29Yes, Canis.
01:20:51Set course due north. Set for Rome.
01:20:54Set for Rome.
01:21:26Set for Rome.
01:21:30Set for Rome.
01:21:33Set for Rome.
01:21:44Set for Rome.
01:21:50Set for Rome.
01:21:58Set for Rome.
01:22:08Set for Rome.
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