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Hadji Murad. 
The 19th Century Avar warrior. 
The fighter against Russian domination. 
The inspiration for Tolstoy's novella that bears his name. 
The novella that Wittgenstein carried in his pocket throughout WWI.  
The novella that Harold Bloom called “my personal touchstone for the sublime of prose fiction, to me the best story in the world, or at least the best I have ever read.” 

 This legendary figure and the equally legendary Tolstoy work was adapted to the screen in 1959.

 Anthony Quinn? Anthony Quayle? Olivier? Brando? Burton? Christopher Lee? 

 Nope.

 Steve Reeves.
Steve Reeves.

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