The Two Gladiators

The Two Gladiators (Italian: I due gladiatori, also known as Fight or Die) is a 1964 Italian peplum film directed by Mario Caiano and starring Richard Harrison.

In the film, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius fathered twin sons. It is decided that one son will become Aurelius' heir, while the other will be killed to avoid a potential succession crisis between two rival heirs. The senator tasked with infanticide has moral reservations against the practice, and he instead offers the infant to a foster family. Several years later, Commodus succeeds his father. The senator tries to use Commodus' estranged twin brother Lucius Crassus as a candidate for the throne. The two brothers are soon scheming against each other, in a conflict that ends in fratricide during gladiatorial combat.