Musings!

Abbe Kane and Gordon Mitchell are a tumultuous couple in JULIUS CAESAR AGAINST THE PIRATES (1962)

A very pulpy retelling of the actual event in history of Caesar kidnapped by pirates. I wrote about it in the latest BY THE GODS! issue. Directed by the not so subtle Sergio Grieco, this movie has babes that babes and pirates that are hyper masculine. It's very entertaining. I know some people who do not like it. It does seem uneven, certainly during the battle between ships on the sea. The studio sets do not match the actual boats used in the exterior scenes. But even with these discrepancies, and there are a lot, the loud movie keeps my attention. Abbe made two PEPLUM movies during the time she was, along with her soon to be ex-husband, Xavier Cugat, very popular and cool. Everything back then was larger than life and boisterous and hyper feminine and hyper masculine. The complete opposite of today. Abbe died in August of this year. She was 93.