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The Gladiator
1938 · Film · 72 min
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.
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The article also mentions the book Gladiator, available from standard ebooks
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/philip-wylie/gladiator
> Gladiator, first published in 1930, tells the story of Hugo Danner, who is given superhuman speed, endurance, strength, and intelligence by his father as an experiment in creating a better human. We follow Hugo throughout his life viewed from his perspective, from childhood, when Hugo first discovers he’s different from others, to adulthood, as Hugo tries to find a positive outlet for his abilities around the time of the first World War.
> Gladiator has been made into a 1938 comedy movie, and is thought to be the inspiration for the Superman comic books—though this has not been confirmed.