Livio Lorenzon orders his men to start whipping the women in HERCULES AND THE TYRANTS OF BABYLON Filmed at Tor Caldana location (see pr...

Can you identify the movie from this screenshot? (I should have included this example for the Landscape post...)

The French (and Belgians) really love their PEPLUM adventures and the endless number of adult-oriented comic books are a testament to...

Julie Newmar in an improbable dance sequence from SERPENT OF THE NILE There are a lot of anachronistic elements in this dance sequenc...

French poster for THE SON OF CAPTAIN BLOOD Sean Flynn following in his father's footsteps.

Hercules gets guidance from his father Zeus in the TV cartoon show THE MIGHTY HERCULES Give me this clean-line animation over the st...

Scilla Gabel was a stand-in/body double for Sophia Loren for several of the latter's films. Sophia's star, in the US and around ...

More posted at the SHIELDS page COLOSSUS OF ROME (aka Hero of Rome) MASSACRE IN THE BLACK FOREST

Esmeralda (Gina Lollobrigida) gives Quasimodo (Anthony Quinn) some water when he's chained in the square in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DA...

What was up with Charlton Heston and his seemingly lack of clothes in most of his films? I always figured the PEPLUM genre asked him to do ...

A new study reported in the journal Nature Communications indicates that the Minoans, who 5,000 years ago established the first advanced ...

Maciste (Alan Steel; Samson in the English version) enjoys the company of some new "friends" in ZORRO VS MACISTE (or Samson and...

Publicity photos of Abbe Lane and a buch of dancers from JULIUS CAESAR AGAINST THE PIRATES. Love these!

This book written by Oscar Lapeña Marchena is available in Italian (but it's translated...from what?). You can see it on sale here ...

John Agar and Hugh Beaumont (on the floor) are to be sacrificed by a long lost race of descendants of Sumerians who turned into albinos i...

The opening credits to HERCULES UNCHAINED. The main stars are Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez and Primo Carnera. But then the sup...

Whenever they show a walled city in PEPLUM films I'm always disappointed by the complete lack of landscaping around said cities. First ...

Richard Harrison poses as a native with his friend's help, Wilbert Bradley, in TEMPLE OF A THOUSAND LIGHTS I don't have this fi...

Even though the Sandokan character is sometimes known as a pirate his adventures often take place on dry land and in the case of SANDOKAN...

Diamond jewelry belonging to PEPLUM star Gina Lollobrigida sold for more than $4.9 million on Tuesday in Geneva and set a record for pea...

Galen (Peter MacNicol) just discovered that Valerian (Caitlin Clarke) is actually a girl after a swim in a river in DRAGONSLAYER (1981) ...

I'm not too familiar with Joan Leslie's career and a quick glance at IMDb shows I've seen few of her films and she's d...

I just wanted to let visitors of this blog know that I rebooted the PEPLUM Facebook presence by switching the old 'personal'  a...

Dance sequence from THE INVINCIBLE BROTHERS MACISTE This scene is ahead of its time, dated, anachronistic, corny and raunchy all at on...

Italian poster for THE INVINCIBLE GLADIATOR Epic poster!