Alone Against Rome (1962)

Original title: Solo contro Roma

Peplum. Italy. Starring Lang Jeffries, Rossana Podestà, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Tinti & Luciana Angiolillo. Directed by Luciano Ricci.

DVD: Odeon (Greece). English dubbed. Widescreen. Good quality.

Ulysses Against Hercules (1962)

Original title: Ulisse contro Ercole

Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Georges Marchal, Mike Lane, Alessandra Panaro, Gabriele Tinti, Raf Baldassarre, Gianni Santuccio & Yvette Lebon. Directed by Mario Caiano.

Star Video (Finland). English dubbed. Fullscreen. US TV-version.

I only needed to hear the "Mighty Sons of Hercules"-song in the beginning to get in a good mood from this film. A really pulpy and entertaining peplum with some fantastic ingredients, my favorites being the vulture-people and their bigbreasted queen (who of course falls in love with both Hercules and Ulisses). The non-plot is basically that Hercules is on a mission from the gods to find and capture Ulisses for blinding the Cyklops. Ulisses outsmarts Hercules and manages to escape, encounters some fantastic creatures or evil queens, is captured again, outsmarts Hercules, escapes, encounters creatures etc. in absurdum. Of course the two heroes finally becomes the best of friends and joins forces to defeat the evil king Lagos (wonderfully played by Gianni Santuccio), a sweaty, sickly and rambling madmen who likes to torture women and uses his army of neanderthal men to pillage the nearby villages in quest for total power. Silly fun. 3/5

Goliath and the Barbarians (1959)

Original title: Il Terrore dei Barbari

Peplum. Italy. Starring Steve Reeves, Gabriele Tinti & Chelo Alonso. Directed by Carlo Campogalliani.

Medusa Video (Sweden). English dubbed. Letterboxed.

Steve Reeves fights some raiding mongolians. I remember it as a pretty dull affair but I think I will have to give it another chance on DVD some day... 2/5

Esther and the King (1960)

Biblical/Historical. Italy/USA. Starring Joan Collins, Richard Egan, Denis O'Dea, Rik Battaglia, Gabriele Tinti, Rosalba Neri & Daniela Rocca. Directed by Raoul Walsh & Mario Bava.

Spectrum (Denmark). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Siren of Atlantis (1961)

Original title: L'Atlantide

Fantasy/Adventure. Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Haya Harareet, Georges Rivière & Gabriele Tinti. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer & Giuseppe Masini.

EVC (Holland). French language with dutch subtitles. Letterboxed.

Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)

Biblical. USA/Italy/France. Starring Stewart Granger, Stanley Baker, Rik Battaglia, Pier Angeli, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Anthony Steffen, Gabriele Tinti & Daniele Vargas. Directed by Robert Aldrich & Sergio Leone (uncredited).

Wahlters Video (Sweden). English dubbed. Letterboxed.

This biblical film is not badly made, and has a fairly high budget (a real Hollywood director, a fading american movie star and all), but it's a little too stuffy and preachy for my taste. I guess it's a trapping of the genre and that biblical films simply isn't my thing. In this flick I rooted for the decadent sodomites and not the goody-two-shoes christians. The destruction scenes were pretty impressive though - engineered by Sergio Leone no less. 2/5

The Mysterious Island of Captain Nemo (1973)

Original title: La Isla Misteriosa

Adventure/Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Spain/France/Italy/Cameroon. Starring Gabriele Tinti, Gérard Tichy, Jess Hahn, Omar Sharif, Rik Battaglia. Directed by Juan Antonio Bardem & Helri Colpi.

Select Video/Starbox (Sweden). English dubbed. Fullscreen. Feature lenght version.

Lovely european Jules Verne fantasy TV-series edited down to feature lenght (I also have the complete series on german DVD). Fantasy films don't come much better than this! 5/5

Goliath and the Barbarians (1959)

Original title: Il Terrore dei Barbari

Peplum. Italy. Starring Steve Reeves, Gabriele Tinti & Chelo Alonso. Directed by Carlo Campogalliani.

Wahlters Video (Sweden). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Steve Reeves fights some raiding mongolians. I remember it as a pretty dull affair but I think I will have to give it another chance on DVD some day... 2/5