The Arena (1974)

Pam Grier, Marie Louise Sinclair, Lucretia Love, and Margaret Markov in The Arena (1974)

Two thousand years ago, the people of Rome are so blasée, so used to violence, that entertaining them becomes a political problem. Someone suggests, after a hectic girl fight in a kitchen between a Nubian and a Viking slave, as a joke, that they should fight in the arena, instead of male gladiators. The idea is approved, though – and a female “Spartacus” theme follows.