Theseus (Jacques Dacqmine) and Phaedra (Marie Bell) in PHAEDRA (or Phèdre ; 1968 ) This is a French film based on a play. Though it w...

Super panoramic photo of a set for the silent version of KING OF KINGS (1927) If you want to see a bigger version of photo, just clic...

Haya Harareet is Antinea in JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT To be blunt, this film is terrible. Yes, the quality of the only available Eng...

Here's part of the HERCULES & THE CAPTIVE WOMEN soundtrack by Gino Marinuzzi Jr. The original soundtrack wasn't used in its...

Marco polo (Rory Calhoun) greets Grand Khan (Camillo Pilotto), his daughter, Princess Amurroy (Yôko Tani), and the evil henchman Mongka (C...

Italian poster for ULYSSES Colorful, picturesque artwork. Looks almost like a comic book. I like this film but it's not even clos...

Armand Mestral and Edmund Purdom in WHITE SLAVE SHIP This is an extremely rare film, in English anyway. Mestral starred in MORGAN THE...

Retro Friday : Old posts updated ( originally posted on April 6, 2011 ) One of the modified BEN-HUR statues still resides at Cinecittà...

Howard Ross (Renato Rossini) and Ken Clark try to coax Gloria Milland in HERCULES AGAINST THE BARBARIANS I like these three actors.  G...

It's the beginning of an extended fight between Steve Reeves and the cool Benito Stefanelli. Great scene.

Edmund Purdom and Liana Orfei in NEFERTITI - QUEEN OF THE NILE The relationship between Purdom and Orfei is much better than the one be...

Steve Reeves in a publicity photo (in Rome?) at the airport promoting one of his films

Elaine Stewart is pampered by her handmaidens in THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA There's plenty of cheesecake in this old 20th Centu...

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Erika (Simonetta Simeoni) pleads with Hercules (Alan Steel) to help her in HERCULES AGAINST ROME Erika is one of the most annoying char...

US poster for HANNIBAL You can clearly see the HERCULES influence in this poster's art. Victor doesn't look anything like thi...

Claire Bloom and Richard Burton in ALEXANDER THE GREAT I like this film. Great production, great cast, great locations. The one major p...

Retro Friday : Old posts updated ( originally posted on October 2, 2013 ) As the story goes, Cecil B DeMille wanted Steve Reeves to pl...

Rita Hayworth is SALOME Rita doing the dance of the seven veils. Not a bad film but it's a typical Columbia Pictures production, ...

Ralf Moeller, Russell Crowe and Djimon Hounsou are gladiators in GLADIATOR Looks like an NFL football team. This film could be part of ...

Harold Bradley takes a photo with Anthony Quinn during the filming of BARABBAS

Someone asked me if I could help him getting the word out on a book project that will be made of essays on the PEPLUM genre post 1990s. It...

Peter Lupus in GIANT OF THE EVIL ISLAND Finally got a hold of a relatively nice copy of this rare film. The only copy available out the...

The 'Golden Era' of the PEPLUM genre, which was re-ignited back in 1949, re-invigorated after the success of HERCULES (1958), eventu...

Maciste (Kirk Morris) appears from the rock to help the helpless in MACISTE IN THE VALLEY OF THUNDERING ECHOES One of the few films whic...