Geronimo1967
Anyone else think this was more an hybrid of The Man in the Iron Mask meets The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? Well with the death of Marcus Aurelius, his errant son Commodus (Mimmo Palmara) accedes the throne and launches straight into a reign of gladiatorial games and equally grand state sponsored larceny and brutality. Unbeknown to him, though, there is a twin brother who was secreted away at birth by senator Tarrunio (Gianni Solaro) and adopted with the name Lucius (Richard Harrison). In Rome, with his Praetorian prefect Leto (Alberto Farnese) running amok it seems that only his lover Marcia (Moria Orfei) might be able to rein in the new emperor, but when he cruelly gives her to his enforcer it falls to the ageing senator to send...