(1961) Ed Fury, Christina Gajoni, Mario Scaccia, Moira Orsei. Returning from war, Ursus learns his fiancée, Attea, has been taken to a mysterious island ruled by a pagan goddess. The mysterious tribe that lives there has a nasty habit of...

(1959, Anamorphic Edition) Massimo Serato, Irène Tunc, Luisella Boni, Luciano Marin, Pierre Cressoy.  Riding into danger is a masked vigilante called the Dark Knight.  His advisory is a cruel ruler (played by longtime sword and sandal veteran Serato) who has seized and imprisoned the peaceful ruler of nearby region...

(1960, upgraded 3/1/24) Mark Forest, Broderick Crawford, Gaby Andre. The Goliath battles a giant bat, a three-headed dog, a wind goddess, a dragon and other nasty creatures to save his wife and kingdom from an evil ruler played by Crawford...

(1963, upgraded 5/27/24) Mark Forest, Marilu Tolo, Elisabeth Fanty, Robert Hundar, Giuseppe Addobbati. Poseidon (aka Maciste) finds himself fighting for his life against a ruthless Caesar of Tome.  Later he is also pitted against a weird...

(1960, Upgraded 12/29/22) Mark Forest, Chelo Alonso, Vira Silenti, Angelo Zanolli, Carlo Tamberlani, Frederica Ranchi. Samson's son, Maciste, turns up in ancient Egypt where he leads a slave revolt against the evil Queen Smedes. His goal is to dispose of the Queen and restore the throne to its rightful heir.  But can he resist Smedes incredible...

(1961, Upgraded 10/26/21) Brad Harris, Walter Reeves, Mara Berni, Brigitte Corey, Alan Steel.  Samson attempts to restore a queen to her rightful throne. Lots of typical exciting peplum action.  Harris is great in the title role with Steel also thrown in...

(1961, Upgraded 3/1/24) Gordon Scott, Yoko Tani. Considered by many to be one of the great sword and sandal pictures of the 1960s. Samson fights against a murdering horde of Tartar warriors while trying to save the life of a beautiful...

(1962) Guy Williams, Don Burnett, Ilaria Occhini, Liana Orfei, Anroldo Foa.  Pythias (Burnett) is a high-ideal Athenian who comes to Syracuse to find Arcanos, an underground leader.  Damon (Williams) is the devil-may-care thief who agrees (for money) to find him for Pythias. Syracuse’s draconian ruler Dionysus (Foa) is determined to capture Pythias and Arcanos. The crisis comes when...

(1968 Anamorphic Widescreen) Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman, Robert Hoffman, Michael Dunn, Lang Jeffries, directed by Robert Siodmak.  Disc One: Kampf um Rom I. It’s not long after the fall of the Western Roman Empire (early 500s AD).  One of the last Roman leaders, Cethegus (Harvey), makes a bid to return Rome to its former greatness.Disc Two: Kampf um Rom II, Der Verrat: Cethegus gets a war started between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantine Empire...

(1962, aka MACISTE AGAINST THE MONSTERS) Reg Lewis, Margaret Lee, Luciano Marin.  Before they changed his name to Maxxus for a Son of Hercules film, this movie was about Maciste, who stumbles upon two warring tribes: Sun worshipers and Moon worshipers. He saves the Sun worshipper’s leader from a monster and falls for lusty Margaret Lee, who’s taken by the Moon worshipers...  

(1971) Kartal Tibet, Eva Bender, Seher Seniz, Bilal Inci, Fatma Belgen, Atif Kakptan.  Although Tarkan Vs. the Vikings is filled with the cheapest costumes imaginable, cardboard sets, inept special effects, and cheesy monsters, it’s the best Turkish movie we’ve ever seen from the ‘60s or ‘70s.  It really does have that kind of “big epic-spectacle film” feel to it...

(1960) Bob Mathias, Rosanna Schiaffino, Alberto Lupo, Rik Battaglia.  King Minos sacrifices the 'required' number of virgins to the monstrous Minotaur.  But as his wife is dying, she confesses that their daughter has a twin whom she has hidden away to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur... 

(1960 Belinda Lee, Spiros Focás, Carlo Giustini, Arturo Dominici. The corrupt Roman Empress, Messalina (well-played by Lee), transforms from a Vestal Virgin to a power mad, sex-crazed killer. This film does a pretty good job portraying her depravity.  One memorable scene has a young would-be assassin ending up in Messalina’s bed...  

(1962) Roland Carey, Chantal Deberg, Daniela Bianchi, Jose Pellicina.  El Cid’s daughters find themselves eyeball to eyeball with their new enemies—their own husbands!   Lots of engaging intrigue subplots lace this film...

(1961) Kirk Morris, Frank Gordon, Bice Valori, Liana Orfei.  A couple of boxing promoters use a time machine to travel back to ancient times.  They end up needing Hercules to save them from Genghis Khan and his Hordes...

(1961) Mark Forest, Moira Orfei, Paul Wynter, Gianni Garko, Enrico Glori.  The son of Hercules—this time Maciste—aids survivors of a murderous raid by a war party of weird albinos that live inside Earth...

(1964) Lang Jeffries, Jose Greci, Angela Angelucci, Enzo Tarascio, Howard Ross.  This never-before-on-DVD sword and sandal title deals with the Roman Emperor Commodus, who falls for a gorgeous Roman babe who’s in love with one of his soldiers.  When she denies him her affections, he sentences her to be burned at the stake...

(1963) Gordon Mitchell, Tony Kendall, Ursula Davis, Massimo Serato.  In what may be the best portrayal of his career, Mitchell plays Brennus, a savage warrior who’s out to conquer Rome.  This is a superb sword & sandal movie, with lots of fierce action and terrific performances by all...