PEPLUM X Tuesdays
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Monday, December 8, 2014
By the Gods!
Babar is one of the most annoying sidekicks in PEPLUM film history. The actor is credited as John Simons in the opening credits but he's not listed anywhere, including IMDb. Must be an alias. Dan is an action star in this but the fake beard sorta ruins it.
Movie Poster Mondays
German poster for REVOLT OF THE SLAVES
The artist didn't quite get Rhonda's face.
Friday, December 5, 2014
By the Gods!
Micah (Edmund Purdom) gets whipped after a falling out with the PTB (Powers That Be) in THE PRODIGAL
This scene lasts a split-second in the film so it's great that there's a photo of this which captured the moment. Thanks to Gary for this very rare photo.
I've said it before and I'll always say it: THE PRODIGAL is a snoozefest. It's well mounted MGM production but hardly exciting on any level and Micah's character is hard to root for. So was this punishment justified? Aha!
Edmund would have made a great Jesus.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
By the Gods!
Sylva Koscina, as Clio, rides to her father's temple in SIEGE OF SYRACUSE
Ah the simple days when a pretty woman could ride nonchalantly around, to the market or anywhere, in a chariot.
I love SIEGE OF SYRACUSE but one of the criticism I have about it is that Sylva's role was merely a footnote, nothing more. It was severely underwritten. But she lit-up the story whenever she was on screen.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Monday, December 1, 2014
By the Gods!
Lou Ferrigno is Sinbad in SINBAD OF THE SEVEN SEAS.
This film puts the bad in SINBAD. The film had a long history of production problems so it's no wonder it ended up like it did. The photography was good though.
Movie Poster Mondays
Belgian poster for I PIOMBI DI VENEZIA
A very rare, impossible to find early PEPLUM/Swashbuckler starring perennial genre star Massimo Serato. Gary has been communicating with me with rare difficult stuff impossible to find from the genre and this is one of them. The Italian is untranslatable but the Belgian title here, LE PRISONNIER DE VENISE is easy to figure out: THE PRISONER OF VENICE. The French title translates as THE EXECUTIONER OF VENICE. That title already exists as a Lex Barker actioned made in the 1960s. The film's production manager was Vittorio Cottafavi who later on directed many famous films of the genre. The poster includes all the trademark genre elements.