The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba (1962)

Original title: Le Sette Fatiche di Alì Babà

Arabian fantasy. Italy. Starring Rod Flash & Bella Cortez. Directed by Emimmo Salvi.

VCI (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Tor: Mighty Warrior (1963)

Original title: Taur, il Re della Forza Bruta

Peplum. Italy. Starring Joe Robinson, Bella Cortez & Harry Baird. Directed by Antonio Leonviola.

Replay Video (Belgium). French language with dutch subtitles. Letterboxed (slightly). Image is stretched out so if you adjust your TV settings you can get a pretty good full widescreen, but it doesn't help much since the print is horribly bad and dubbed in french... Nice, tacky cover though.

Bizarre and crudely made peplum, but not without its entertainment value. Apparently the project begun as a Tarzan-ripp off, but not much of that was left in the finsihed product (this tacky belgian video release tries to sell it as one though). A blatantly racist movie, poor Harry Baird (Four of the Apocalypse) had to degrade himself as Ubaratutu, the stupid and cowardly black sidekick to his "massa" Taur. 2/5

Sinbad and the 7 Saracens (1964)

Original title: Sinbad Contro i Sette Saraceni

Arabian fantasy. Italy. Starring Gordon Mitchell, Bruno Piergentili, Bella Cortez, Carla Calò, Maria Pia Conte & Luigi Tosi. Directed by Emimmo Salvi.

Rex Films (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

The Giant of Metropolis (1961)

Original title: Il Gigante di Metropolis

Peplum. Italy. Starring Gordon Mitchell, Bella Cortez, Liana Orfei, Carlo Tamberlani & Leopoldo Savona. Directed by Umberto Scarpelli.

DVD: Retromedia (USA). English dubbed. Fake "letterbox". Pretty terrible quality.

Somebody here obviously liked the 1930s Flash Gordon serials when they were kids... A wonderful sci-fi peplum! Deserves a much better release than this crap DVD. 4/5

Tor: Mighty Warrior (1963)

Original title: Taur, il Re della Forza Bruta

Peplum. Italy. Starring Joe Robinson, Bella Cortez & Harry Baird. Directed by Antonio Leonviola.

VPD (UK). English dubbed. Letterboxed (slightly).

Bizarre and crudely made peplum, but not without its entertainment value. Apparently the project begun as a Tarzan-ripp off, but not much of that was left in the finsihed product. A blatantly racist movie, poor Harry Baird (Four of the Apocalypse) had to degrade himself as Ubaratutu, the stupid and cowardly black sidekick to his "massa" Taur. The brittish mid-eighties video release tried to pass this off as a sword and sorcery flick á la Conan. 2/5

Vulcan, Son of Jupiter (1961)

Original title: Vulcano, Figlio di Giove

Peplum. Italy. Starring Rod Flash, Gordon Mitchell, Bella Cortez & Roger Browne . Directed by Emimmo Salvi.

Eagle 6 (Holland). English dubbed. Letterboxed.

Not a good film by a stretch, but it has enough fantastic ingredients, gods and monsters too be entertaining. Rod Flash gives one of the worst performances in the history of beefcake actors, which is something of an achievement. What can I say, i'm a sucker for fantasy in peplums... 3/5