Tuesday, December 16, 2025

PEPLUM Illustrations from TCM

I don't have TCM so I wouldn't know this but a few years ago, the movie channel showed a bunch of PEPLUM movies on Thursdays during the entire month of January. The illustrations are fun and show the movies that were going to be broadcasted.


On the left side, it's either ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1956) or CLEOPATRA (1963). The costumes look Roman so I'd say it's CLEOPATRA. BEN-HUR (1959; bottom right) with Charlton Heston during the chariot race, and the main illustration is from THE MINOTAUR (1960) with a muscular Bob Mathias and Rosanna Schiaffino.

 

The illustration on the left is from a POMPEII movie but which one? On the right side, we see Rossana Podesta from HELEN OF TROY (1956) and below her is Peter Ustinov as Nero in QUO VADIS (1951). And the main illustration is Kirk Douglas in SPARTACUS (1960).

 

The Trojan Horse from HELEN OF TROY is on the left side. Some viking movie on the right side. I don't know which one. Either THE VIKINGS (1958) or THE LONG SHIPS (1964). And the centre illustration is ATLAS (1961). It looks like Steve Reeves and not Michael Forest.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The background images on the top one are all from Spartacus.

Anonymous said...

It seems to have happened during January 2019. There are some cool video promos as well.