Anita in a publicity photo for ZARAK Anita Ekberg is Babe of the Month for a freezing January 2013. Anita was a bombshell from Europe...

A priest (Jack Taylor) admires the musculature of Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) in CONAN THE BARBARIAN I saw this film at the movies and...

Hercules was a wooden roller coaster at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was in operation from 1989 to...

1 - PEPLUM TV This weekend I played movies on Saturday and Sunday (and last night too) on PEPLUM TV. Saturday was Cleopatra day and...

Randus (Steve Reeves) is awaken in the middle of the night by Vetius (Jacques Sernas), Claudia (Gianna Maria Canale) and Crassus (Claudio...

Italian poster for HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD Rare design and a bit unusual but cool nonetheless.

Very brief dance sequence but it's action packed! From SLAVE OF ROME.

Steve Reeves as Hercules in a publicity photo from HERCULES UNCHAINED Today is HERCULES day on PEPLUM TV and here's a great photo...

I always wondered what inspired the artist of the Marvel comic book version of Hercules to come up with the crazy footwear/boots/leggings.....

Peter Lupus, known as Rock Stevens in PEPLUM films, is seen here on the cover of Annette's single from MUSCLE BEACH PARTY. He made Ita...

Gloria Milland and Massimo Palmara are a power couple from hell in GOLIATH & THE REBEL SLAVE They make a memorable couple in the fil...

CLEOPATRA Day continues on PEPLUM TV. In the meantime, look at this color photo of the Rivoli with CLEOPATRA premiere. I'm assuming it...

One of the odd things about the PEPLUM genre is the high number of actors who have appeared in a film, had a sizeable role or even an memora...

Mark Antony (Richard Burton) and Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) watch the feast in CLEOPATRA (1963) Though not as unbridled as the orgies ...

Painting Lorenzo Di Mauro

US lobby cards set for CLEOPATRA (1963). Distilling the entire 4 hours into 8 lobby cards was an impossible task. There were two sets ...

A pectacular Spartacus (Peter Lupus) awaits his fate from Consul Metello (Piero Lulli) in CHALLENGE OF THE GLADIATORS An entertaining fi...

I find it odd that one never saw or even heard characters in films made in the 1950s and set in contemporary times mention the existence of ...

Here's an artist's representation of the fabled city of Carthage. Cool stuff. According to Wikipedia: Two large, artificial h...

Olympias (Angelina Jolie) with a young Alexander (Connor Paolo) in ALEXANDER (2004) Angelina is set to star as Cleopatra in a new fil...

Facebook friend Pasquale  recently asked me to fix this photo of Steve Reeves. Here's the Before & After shots.

CHALLENGE OF THE GLADIATORS HERCULES & THE TYRANTS OF BABYLON HERO OF BABYLON

Pontius Pilate (Jean Marais) interrogates Jesus (John Drew Barrymore) in PONTIUS PILATE This film is rare. It's almost never shown ...

Can you identify the film from this screenshot?

With yesterday's big announcement that MGM, which was teetering towards bankruptcy but saved after two big recent hits, has greenlig...