Rare British special presentation poster of HERCULES UNCHAINED I really like this one.

Gianna Maria Canale is about to get whipped in THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATES Gianna made a bunch of PEPLUM Swashbucklers, playing lead acti...

Vintage Italian article on Richard harrison and his exercise regime.

Gordon Scott in action from GOLIATH AND THE VAMPIRES. He did most of his stunts in this film.

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Ada (Ziva Rodann) nurses Alexander (William Shatner) in more ways than one in the failed TV pilot ALEXANDER THE GREAT Ziva's role is...

Pop star Katy Perry, like so many other pop stars such as Will Smith and Michael Jackson, has gone totally Egyptian (via Las Vegas). Her ...

I love these. Rodan the Gladiator? Cool!  Notice how little they wore unlike what Russell Crowe and the other gladiators wore in Rid...

Prince Sergei Vorontzov (Gérard Herter) decides on the future of Hadji Murad (Steve Reeves) in THE WHITE WARRIOR The cinematography is b...

Director Pietro Francisci and Steve Reeves goof around presumably during the time they filmed HERCULES

Here are a couple of more French Fotonovelas FURY OF ACHILLES MACISTE AGAINST THE SHEIK SWORD OF ISLAM (aka Oh Islam) ...

Henet (Belinda Lee) dismisses Joseph (Geoffrey Horne) in JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHREN (1962) This scene is cut from the US DVD. Too sexy? ...

IMDb is well known for having many mistakes in their credit info of old Italian films. THE GIANTS OF THESSALY is a good example. In their...

Along with the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus is the other athletic venue which enthralled Romans back in the day with chariot races. Litt...

Sandar Khan (Kirk Morris) and Malina (Moira Orfei) quarel about their future in TERROR OF THE STEPPES The only film Kirk and Moira made ...

US poster of DEATHSTALKER 2 Familiar artwork by Boris Vallejo, who made so many posters during the 1980s.

The cult of female worshipers of Dionysus known as THE BACCHANTES (1961) There were also male worshipers of Dionysus but the legend o...

GIF animation sequence from TRIUMPH OF MACISTE starring Kirk Morris. Classic 'Feat of Strength' scene. 

US lobby cards set for GOLD FOR THE CAESARS. Very good set. Covers pretty much everything. No close-ups of the actors but there are two ca...

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Howard Ross and Christa Linder, as Helen, in HELEN, YES...HELEN OF TROY (1973) One of those Italian PEPLUM sex comedies of the 1970s....

Gabriele Tinti and Laura Gemser, the sexy soft core couple of the 1970s Italiano trash cinema, were a real couple behind the scenes. Both ...

Original Italian version (translation: Hercules and the Queen of Lidya) US / English version. The best title version of the bunch (...

Sandokan (Ray Danton) in SANDOKAN FIGHTS BACK Excellent production values, good action, good cast. A surprisingly solid and entertain...