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Artafernes (Mimmo Palmara) and Gordian aka Goliath (Gordon Scott) fight to the death in GOLIATH AND THE REBEL SLAVE (1963)

Original UK lobby cards set of BEN-HUR (1959) starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd and all. Great set with more cards than the usual 8 ca...

Richard Harrison in GLADIATORS 7 (1962) Another pretty solid PEPLUM with Harrison. Like the previous THE INVINCIBLE GLADIATOR, this is a...

Tina Louise on the set of SAPPHO - THE VENUS OF LESBOS (1960; aka The Warrior Empress)

The Three Wise Men visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, with Joseph (Laurence Payne) and Mary (José G...

Spectacular scene from QUO VADIS (1951) The movie QUO VADIS is replete with matte painting and special effects, too many to cover in one p...

Italian actress Lydia Alfonsi died on September 21 at the age of 94. She only appeared in a handful of PEPLUM movies but they're all mem...

Creusa (Juliette Mayniel, in red) seeks help from Cassandra (Lydia Alfonsi, behind altar) at the Temple of Athena in THE TROJAN HORSE (1961)...

Original Italian poster of SEVEN SLAVES AGAINST ROME (1964)  Great gladiator poster even though no such scene occurs in the movie. They fi...

Paris (Ricardo Cortez) woos Helen of Troy (Maria Corda) in THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN OF TROY (1927)

Premiere of THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) at the Cartier cinema in Quebec city, Canada.

Rezius (Richard Harrison) meets the evil Prime Minister Rabirius (Leo Anchóriz) in THE INVINCIBLE GLADIATOR (1961) That's Antonio Moli...

Robert Taylor takes home movies of the extras on the set of QUO VADIS (1951). Nice colour photo.

The ending to the movie. With Carl Möhner. 

German Blu-ray edition of HANNIBAL (1959) starring Victor Mature and Rita Gam (below), will be released in 2023. The BD is being sold as a T...

Spiros in MESSALINA (1960); a recent photo of the actor

Kirk Morris, Margaret Lee, and Aldo Bufi Landi plot something in SAMSON AND THE SEA BEAST (1964) A fun movie with some unintentionally hil...

French poster SANDOKAN - PIRATE OF MALAYSIA (1964)  Beautiful poster. The title for this movie varies a lot. It's THE PIRATES OF MALAY...

Nero (Peter Ustinov) sings while Petronius (Leo Genn) and Tigellinus (Ralph Truman) watch on as Rome burns in QUO VADIS (1951)

UK VHS cover of THE FALL OF ROME (1963). Cover has nothing to do with movie. But I guess they had to sell it to folks back then.

Ubaratutu (Harry Baird) fights with buddy Thor (Joe Robinson) while the Queen (Janine Hendy) tries to stop Thor in THOR AND THE AMAZON WOME...

Susan Hayward and director Henry King have a chat on the set of DAVID AND BATHSHEBA (1951)

Georges Marchal is tortured with the 'bell.' Also with Conrado San Martin and Rory Calhoun.