Image of the week!

Alan Foster (Richard Harrison) gets the Koh-i-Noor, known as the 'Mountain of Light,' in TEMPLE OF A THOUSAND LIGHTS (1965; aka Sandok)

At the movies...

HERCULES (1958) playing at the Pilgrim theatre in Boston in the summer of 1959.

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It's all about Swashbucklers, pirates, heroes in breeches! The subject is huge so there's a lot of stuff to cover. There are two categories: Land Adventures and Seven Seas Adventures. I wrote that there are two movies that influenced each individual category. 

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Issue 4  

DISASTER HITS!

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Issue 3

TROJAN TALES

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Issue 2

PEPLUM MOVIES PRIMER

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Issue 1 

WHAT MADE HERCULES A HIT?

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Musings!

Susy Andersen, John Drew Barrymore and Ettore Manni in WAR OF THE ZOMBIES, aka ROME AGAINST ROME (1964)

My favourite genres are horror and PEPLUM, so this month is the month of spooky stuff and Halloween. There are a good number of PEPLUM movies with horror elements, which pleases me. This is one of the most obvious ones. The original Italian title was ROMA CONTRO ROMA, which didn't sound like a horror movie but for the US market, it was retitled WAR OF THE ZOMBIES, which is a bit more like it even if the war in sort of short lived. The concept, or story, is brilliant. A big budget remake would be something else. The movie as is is still great even if it's obvious of the budget limitations for such a high concept story. The cast is great. I just need a stunning HD print with English dub. 

Behind-the-Scenes

Steve Reeves and director Sergio Corbucci have a chat on the set of DUEL OF THE TITANS (1961)