(1960, Upgraded 2/29/24) Roland Carey, Ziva Rodann, Massimo Girotti, Luciano Marin, directed by Riccardo Freda.  A vivid, most enjoyable retelling of the Jason and the Golden Fleece legend.  Watch for some cool-looking monsters, beautiful, but evil women, and sword-wielding warriors in this top adventure epic.  Some cool action scenes compliment a very moody and atmospheric production...

(1961, Upgraded 3/3/24) Brad Harris, Gloria Milland, Fernando Rey, Barbara Carroll. Goliath is headed toward home to take the place of his dead king. The kingdom’s regent wants him dead! He faces assassins, Amazons, a killer Gorilla, sea monsters, gladiators, giants...

(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...

(1964, Upgraded 3/22/24) Mark Forest, Jose Greci, Ken Clark, Grazia Maria Spina. In this loose follow-up to Hercules against the Barbarians, Forest finds himself in the fight of his life against the three sons of Genghis Khan...

(1964, Upgraded 7/14/22) Alan Steel, Jany Clair, Anna Maria Poloni, Nando Tamberlani. Better than average muscleman stuff as Hercules battles magical moon men trying to conquer the world. Their queen has slept for centuries and needs blood to be revived. They enter into a plot with an evil queen, who agrees to help them...

(1964, Upgraded 12/9/20) Reg Park, Fay Spain, Ettore Manni, Luciano Marin, Laura Efrikian. This time Hercules finds himself in Atlantis fighting dragons, an army of identical men, and an evil queen. Made by the same folks as HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD, this too is...

(1961, aka HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD, Upgraded 12/31/20) Reg Park, Christopher Lee, George Ardisson, Leonora Ruffo, dir. by Mario Bava. A classic fantasy. Hercules searches Hades for a magic stone that will cure an ailing princess. The film’s climax...

(1958, Upgraded 12/29/20) Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Fabrizio Mioni, Gianna Maria Canale. This, the grand-daddy of Italian muscleman movies, catapulted Steve Reeves from Mr. Universe to mythic hero. Who can forget the opening scene where Hercules stops a runaway chariot...

(1962, Upgraded 3/18/24) Gustavo Rojo, Abbe Lane, Gordon Mitchell.  Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiracy against him.  When he’s out to sea he’s taken prisoner by pirates headed by Mitchell, who is at his snarling bad guy best and nearly steals the show.  Later comes the big faceoff between young Julius and the pirate hordes... 

(1965, Upgraded 3/10/24) Mark Forest, Rosalba Neri (Sara Bay), Mimmi Palmara, Dea Flowers.  The son of a sultan is kiddnaped by a desert bandit. It's later discovered that the son (Forest) has some kind of strange magical power and is...

(1964, Upgraded 3/3/24) Reg Park, Wandisa Guida, Eleonora Bianchi, Bruno Scipioni. Maciste is pitted against the evil Queen Fazira, who—by using to magic—has Maciste's willpower destroyed. He’s then made a slave, laboring in an African mine.  When he's finally...

(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...

(1962, Upgraded 10-19-21) Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom. A fine epic—overlooked for years. Crain, as Nefertite, is desired by Purdom, who is imprisoned by an evil high priest, played brilliantly by Price.  She weds the Pharaoh and after his death...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(1924, Universal, Updated 5/27/24) Jack Hoxie, Alton Stone (Al Hoxie), Eugenia Gilbert, Claude Payton, William Lester, William McCall, Buck Connors, Pat Harmon. This is a very interesting western dealing with Amnesia. Jack plays a cowboy who has lost his memory because of war injuries.  Some scheming no-gooders get him to...