- The slave traders who scoop up the wounded Maximus in North Africa are the film's Arab-coded figures: venal, wheedling hagglers who cart men across the desert and sell them like livestock, played for sleazy comic relief.
Gladiator (2000)
film
- Distributor
- DW, UNI
- Cast
- Russell Crowe, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Omar Djalili
- Production notes
- SP: John Logan, William Nicholson, David Franzoni. S: Franzoni. D: Ridley Scott