 They can be immediately differentiated from the competing Hollywood product by their use of dubbing.The pepla attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as "Spartacus".Inspired by the success of "Spartacus", there were a number of Italian peplums that emphasized the gladiatorial arena fights in their plots, with it becoming almost a peplum subgenre in itself; One group of supermen known as "The Ten Gladiators" appeared in a trilogy, all three films starring Dan Vadis in the lead role.