Possible Clues:

• 1960 gladiator film
• Gladiator's about to catch up with you and I
• Sea scouts oddly securing role in Hollywood movie
• Gladiator's axe with handle cut, cut by slice
• To practise fighting, cuts a worried gladiator
• Gladiator's pole useless without short nail
• Thracian who led the 73 BC slave revolt against Rome
• Roman gladiator who led slaves in revolt
• South Africa copper's landing role in film
• Slave has fight with historian, losing it