Thursday, 13 June 2013

The Eagle (of the Ninth (Legion))

When I was a kid, there was a book by Rosemary Suttcliffe called "The Eagle of the Ninth", about a Roman centurion who went into the wilds north of Hadrian's wall to determine the fate of his father's legion and retrieve it's Eagle. It was made into a film a while ago and I saw it in the shop the other day and bought it:


It's not a bad film, if a little slow in places, and not as grizzly as Centurion nor as silly as King Arthur or The Last Legion. A decent pizza movie, even if you've not read the book.

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