Tuesday, November 10, 2026

HD Alert!


Fiorella Mari and Gérard Landry in THE MYSTERIOUS SWORDSMAN (1956)

A beautiful HD print of this rarely seen movie. It was released the same year as ROLAND THE MIGHTY but this one came out in May while ROLAND was released in December, making
 THE MYSTERIOUS SWORDSMAN one of the earliest PEPLUM productions shot in widescreen from Europe. It stars Gérard Landry, Frank Latimore, Fiorella Mari, and Tamara Lees (below, left). Landry and Latimore look nearly identical. No issues to report. The colours, when there are some in the dark castle setting, are vivid. Streaming in a country in Europe. I received this print a week after publishing BY THE GODS! magazine, which means I didn't get to cover it. Maybe in a future issue.



The movie has a torture scene. What's a PEPLUM movie without a torture scene?

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