Delilah (Rosalba Neri) and Prince of Gaza (Paolo Gozlino) watch the trial of Samson in THE GREAT LEADERS OF THE BIBLE (1965)

Ed Fury, born Holovchik and the star of the URSUS movies, on the cover of YOUR PHYSIQUE, Jan 1952

Roger Browne, Mimmo Palmara and Mario Novelli in THREE SWORDS FOR ROME (1964)  Even though there were PEPLUM movies made/released until 19...

Caroline Munro displays her costume on the set of THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1973).

Scenes from THE WARRIOR AND THE SLAVE GIRL (1958)  The screenshot above of the matte painting is from an HD print (did I mentioned that al...

Roberto in VENGEANCE OF URSUS (1961); a recent photo of Roberto. He's the Italian voice of Tom Cruise. Roberto with Samson Burke in V...

Gianna Maria Canale, as Princess Amira, in THE WARRIOR AND THE SLAVE GIRL (1958) This was one of many 'evil queen' roles Gianna be...

Original Italian poster of HERCULES AGAINST THE BARBARIANS (1964)  Nice poster of Maciste/Hercules, or Mark Forest, in action. The scene i...

Aeneas (Steve Reeves) and Turno (Gianni Garko) fight for their lives in THE AVENGER (1962)

 THE CONQUEROR (1956) playing in Time Square, NYC.

Wandisa Guida and Mario Petri in REVENGE OF THE CONQUERED (1960)  This is often overlooked and misunderstood movie which deserves much mor...

Patrick Wayne and Jane Seymour have a chat on the set of SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (1977)

General mayhem! With Pietro Torrisi, Roger Browne, too many to mention. 

Mark Forest in HERCULES AGAINST THE MONGOLS (1963) German Blu-ray released late last year. Nice print. It doesn't have English audio. T...

With THEN & NOW, I usually feature actors of the PEPLUM genre who are still alive. For a change, here are some Then & Now images of ...

Olinka Berova in POPPEA'S HOT NIGHTS (1969) A 'ground-breaking' PEPLUM movie in that it was one of the first 'Sex & Sa...

German poster of MACISTE - THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD (1961; aka Maciste vs Mole Men) Fun poster with Mark in action. The German titl...

Cleopatra (Pascale Petit), on horseback, delivers a message in A QUEEN FOR CAESAR (1962)

Original Italian lobby cards of REVOLT OF THE PRAETORIANS (1964) starring Richard Harrison, Giuliano Gemma and Moira Orfei. Nice set. It...

Ivica Pajer, as David, and Simonetta Simeoni in DAVID AND GOLIATH (1960)  I like this film but...there are, hmm, baroque things about it w...

A candid photo of Steve Reeves on the set of MORGAN THE PIRATE (1960). This photo was used for a lobby card but there's no scene where S...

Perseus (Richard Harrison) discovers Andromeda (Anna Ranalli) is a Princess, prompting Galenore (Leo Anchóriz) into a whipping mood!

Scenes from FIRE OVER ROME (1965)  I like this film. The new Blu-ry release is excellent. For a PEPLUM, it's actually pretty solid. B...

 Malcolm in CALIGULA (1979); Malcolm in 2023.

Rosalba Neri surrounded by handmaidens in THE THREE AVENGERS (1964)  This is pretty much a standard scene in most PEPLUM movies. They alwa...