Before HERCULES (1958) starring Steve Reeves the presence of the legendary Greek demi-God at the movies was almost non-existant. This P...

Elana Eden and Tom Tryon are doomed lovers in THE STORY OF RUTH (1960) A super elaborate Biblical epic that's often overlooked. Dir...

Lou Ferrigno at some convention, with a table filled with his own stuff and Hulk stuff but no HERCULES material in sight. I know those HE...

Sean Flynn, son of Errol Flynn. Sean disappeared mysteriously in Cambodia in 1970. His remains were apparently found two years ago. Sean ...

Mario Novelli (left) and Willy Colombini (behind Mario) are looking at a sea creature in HERCULES, SAMSON & ULYSSES This scene is no...

A movie theatre named QUO VADIS...I wonder if QUO VADIS once played there?

CINEMA ITALIANO by Howard Hughes To say that this book is disappointing would be an understatement. It covers Italian cinema in differe...

Regina, Queen of the Bird Men (Dominique Boschero) is resting in her nest in ULYSSES AGAINST HERCULES This role could have easily b...

Spanish poster for REVENGE OF SPARTACUS (aka Revenge of the Gladiators) Rare poster of a rare film. Nothing earth-shattering about it...

Steve Reeves as Aeneas  in WAR OF THE TROJANS (aka The Avenger) This scene might not seem spectacular but it's quite cool because...

I didn't create this. I just found it on them interwebs.

Different acting styles

Jesus (Robert Le Vigan) is about to be prosecuted by Pontius Pilate (Jean Gabin) in GOLGOTHA A rarely seen French film, the first full ...

20 years ago Mark Wahlberg (aka Marky Mark) was modelling Calvin Klein underwear before he became the full time A-list star (!) of today....

Jose Greci on the left from SWORD OF THE EMPIRE and Wandisa Guida on the right from HERCULES AGAINST ROME A funny thing happened yesterd...

The beautiful Jose Greci is in a tight spot in SWORD OF THE EMPIRE I finally got hold of this super elusive film. It's in Italian b...

The incredible Steve Reeves is lifting that big beefy guy by his teeth and the strength of his physique. This would have been a kick ass F...

 That's Sean Bean right? With a blog getting nearly 2000 hits a day, I feel I need to cover stuff not only from the past but also w...

 Some of THE TROJAN WOMEN Part of a tragic trilogy directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis; ELECTRA (1962), this film, released in 1971 and IP...

HERCULES & THE HYDRA by John Singer Sargent

I wonder how this will turn out...

Yul Brynner and Shirley Anne Field in KINGS OF THE SUN  Critics trashed this film to bits and on some level they were right but the fil...

It's difficult to write about plays with PEPLUM stories/themes as the majority of them haven't been preserved for posterity on film ...

The ALIX comic book was created in 1949 by Jacques Martin and there are 30+ books chronicling the story of a young Gaul man adopted by a ...

The Pharaoh's Physician (Ettore Manni) tries to heal Pharaoh Nemorat (Corrado Pani) in CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER Corrado is pretty go...