(1961) Falco Lulli, Jose Jaspe, Leonora Ruffo. The downtrodden peasants of ancient Italy revolt against their evil gentry, who has plagued them with many cruelties. They are led by a heroic peasant who is...

(1964) Guy Madison, Nadia Gray, Rik Battaglia. In the New World, a rugged pirate leader and a corrupt governor vie for the affections of a beautiful Indian heiress. She falls in love with the pirate and to

(1966) Jean Sorel, Lisa Gastoni, Edmund Purdom, Ilari Occhini.  Critics have been a little too unkind to this remake of the 1928 Conrad Veidt classic.  It’s actually a fairly decent Euro-thriller.  Sorel plays a boy who is kidnapped by gypsies.  They mutilate his face into a sardonic, always-grinning atrocity.  

(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...

(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) Richard Lloyd, Anthony Steffen, Tony Freeman, Claudia Lange, Ursula Davis. After a cave-in at an excavation site, a cave is discovered by the brothers Maciste and their pal, the Prince. The cave leads to a...

(1964) Steve Reeves, Jacqueline Sassard, Mimmo Palmara. This action-packed Reeves epic was filmed in Singapore. Reeves reprises his role as Sandokan, a Malaysian rebel who takes on a corrupt British...

(1963, Upgraded 3/19/24) Carl Mohner, Loredana Nusciak, Ida Galli, Andrea Aureli, directed by Antonio Margheriti. It is the days after the death of Constantine. The empire has split into East and West. Bigotry against Christians has run rampant again.  Mohner plays a Roman tribune, also a Christian, who flees because...

(1960) Anastasio Campoy, Juan Cortes, Alfonso de la Vega, Margarita Laos. Prophesied to bring great trouble to the throne, a royal Prince (at birth) is imprisoned by his father the King. Thirty yea

(1964) Reg Park, Mireille Granelli, Furio Meniconi, Ettore Manni.  Hercules has a life and death battle with a horrible monster and comes away badly injured.  Before long he’s pitted against and evil witch, who has occasion to change men into snarling...

(1962) Lang Jeffries, Rossana Podesta, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Tinti. This is a taut thriller about the cruelty of a Roman Tribune who subjects the citizens in his province to muc

(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) Jose Greci, Mickey Hargitay, Livio Lorenzon, Andrea Checchi. Mickey is a Roman soldier who falls for the Emperor’s daughter. However, she is promised in marriage to the son of a Vandal king w

(1962) Kirk Morris, Helen Chanel, Vera Silenti, Angelo Zanolli. Disc one is the original 88-minute windowboxed widescreen Italian version of Maciste in Hell in beautiful color with English subtitles. Disc two features the shorter American version...

(1967, aka DIARY OF A MADMAN) Tom Troupe.  It's not often you see a psychological horror film that delves into the depths of madness the way this film does.  Sofi begins with a 19^th Century business clerk walking through his village toward home.  Inside his humble dwelling he looks into the camera and begins to tell tales of his every day experiences and his infactuation with a woman named Sofi.  His rantings soon dissolve into self-induced madness and brooding psychological horror...

(1962,Updated 4-10-25 aka THE AVENGER) Steve Reeves, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Carla Marlier, Mario Ferrari. Reeves, the epitome of the perfect sword and sandal hero, plays the rugged Aeneas, who becomes involved with