Caesar the Conqueror (1962)

Original title: Giulio Cesare, il Conquistatore delle Gallie

Peplum/Historical. Italy. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms, Carlo Tamberlani, Carla Calò & Bruno Tocci. Directed by Tanio Boccia.

Fine (Korea). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

I'm obviously better at buying new copies of this film than at actually sitting down and watching it...

Hannibal (1960)

Original title: Annibale

Peplum/Historical. Italy. Starring Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Milly Vitale, Rik Battaglia, Terence Hill, Andrea Aureli, Bud Spencer. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer & Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.

DVD: Minerva (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Bigscale historical epic on medium budget (somewhere between Cottafavi and Ben Hur). Pretty good film - even though the unnecessary love story drags a lot and the film cheats us out of the stampeding war elephants.! Actor Victor Mature looks like a beefed-up Björn Ranelid, right down to the lips... (only funny for swedes) 3/5

Catherine of Russia (1963)

Original title: Caterina di Russia

Historical/Drama. Italy/France. Starring Hildegard Knef, Sergio Fantoni, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart & Milly Vitale. Directed by Umberto Lenzi.

Worldwide Video (Holland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

Not bad historical drama. 3/5

Caesar the Conqueror (1962)

Original title: Giulio Cesare, il Conquistatore delle Gallie

Peplum/Historical. Italy. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms, Carlo Tamberlani, Carla Calò & Bruno Tocci. Directed by Tanio Boccia.

Megastar Video (Holland). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Carthage in Flames (1960)

Original title: Cartagine in Fiamme

Peplum/Historical. Italy/France. Starring Pierre Brasseur, Terence Hill, Daniel Gélin & Anne Heywood. Directed by Carmine Gallone.

DVD: Sunfilm Entertainment (Germany). English or german language options. Letterboxed. Good quality.

War and intrigue between Carthage and Rome. OK but not the most exiting peplum in the world. 2/5

Caesar the Conqueror (1962)

Original title: Giulio Cesare, il Conquistatore delle Gallie

Peplum/Historical. Italy. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms, Carlo Tamberlani, Carla Calò & Bruno Tocci. Directed by Tanio Boccia.

DVD: Historical Cinema Collection (Greece). English dubbed. Widescreen. OK quality.

Herod the Great (1959)

Original title: Erode Il Grande

Historical. Italy/France. Starring Edmund Purdom, Sylvia Lopez, Massimo Girotti, Sandra Milo, Ettore Manni, Alberto Lupo & Sylva Koscina. Directed by Viktor Tourjansky.

Video King APS (Denmark). English dubbed. Widescreen.

This historical spectacle is noteworthy for the excellent performance by Purdom as the paranoid and half-mad king Herod. The dramatic ending have an almost Bava-esque gothic horror feel. Above average stuff by a director who've been around since the silent days. Appears to have had pretty high budget for an italian production. This 30 year old danish VHS looks like a blu-ray compared to pan-and-scanned, piss quality UK DVD I had earlier. 3/5

Attila (1954)

Peplum/Historical. Italy/France. Starring Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Ettore Manni, Henri Vidal & Irene Papas. Directed by Pietro Francisci.

Video For Pleasure (Holland). English dubbed. Fullscreen. BETA.

Caesar the Conqueror (1962)

Original title: Giulio Cesare, il Conquistatore delle Gallie

Peplum/Historical. Italy. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms, Carlo Tamberlani, Carla Calò & Bruno Tocci. Directed by Tanio Boccia.

Athens Video Club (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Hannibal (1960)

Original title: Annibale

Peplum/Historical. Italy. Starring Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Milly Vitale, Rik Battaglia, Terence Hill, Andrea Aureli, Bud Spencer. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer & Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.

Standard Video (Holland). English dubbed. Letterboxed.

Bigscale historical epic on medium budget (somewhere between Cottafavi and Ben Hur). Pretty good film - even though the unnecessary love story drags a lot and the film cheats us out of the stampeding war elephants.! Actor Victor Mature looks like a beefed-up Björn Ranelid, right down to the lips... (only funny for swedes) 3/5

Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)

Original title: Pan Wolodyjowski

Adventure/Historical. Poland. Starring Tadeusz Lomnicki, Mieczyslaw Pawlikowski & Magdalena Zawadzka. Directed by Jerzy Hoffman.

Hemvideo Film (Sweden). Polish with swedish subtitles. Letterboxed.

Hannibal (1960)

Original title: Annibale

Peplum/Historical. Italy. Starring Victor Mature, Gabriele Ferzetti, Milly Vitale, Rik Battaglia, Terence Hill, Andrea Aureli, Bud Spencer. Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer & Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.

DVD: VCI (USA). English dubbed. Widescreen. Reasonable quality.

Bigscale historical epic on medium budget (somewhere between Cottafavi and Ben Hur). Pretty good film - even though the unnecessary love story drags a lot and the film cheats us out of the stampeding war elephants.! Actor Victor Mature looks like a beefed-up Björn Ranelid, right down to the lips... (only funny for swedes) 3/5

Messalina (1960)

Original title: Messalina Venere Imperatrice

Peplum/Historical. Starring by Belinda Lee, Giulio Donnini, Arturo Dominici, Ida Galli & Giuliano Gemma. Directed by Vittorio Cottafavi.

DVD: E-M-S (Germany). English/german language options. Widescreen. Very good quality.

This 'risque' historical epic must have been considered pretty daring at its time, but today it feels very dated and tame. Not one of Cottafavi's best. 2/5

Theodora, Slave Empress (1954)

Original title: Teodora, Imperatrice di Bisanzio

Peplum/Historical. Italy/France. Starring Gianna Maria Canale, Georges Marchal & Irene Papas. Directed by Riccardo Freda.

Techno Alm (Holland). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Ursus and the Tartar Princess (1961)

Original title: Ursus e la Ragazza Tartara

Peplum/Historical. Italy/France. Starring Joe Robinson, Yoko Tani, Maria Grazia Spina & Ettore Manni. Directed by Remigio Del Grosso.

Via Video (Holland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

The badass tartars are raising hell in Poland in this enjoyable semi-peplum (the bare-chested muscleman Ursus is not the main character and it's set in the 18th century). No matter what the dutch video cover art implies Gordon Mitchell is sadly not in this film. 3/5

Carthage in Flames (1960)

Original title: Cartagine in Fiamme

Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Pierre Brasseur, Terence Hill, Daniel Gélin & Anne Heywood. Directed by Carmine Gallone.

VTC (Sweden). English dubbed. Letterboxed.

War and intrigue between Carthage and Rome. OK but not the most exiting peplum in the world. 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.

Attila (1954)

Peplum/Historical. Italy/France. Starring Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Ettore Manni, Henri Vidal & Irene Papas. Directed by Pietro Francisci.

Video For Pleasure (Holland). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

The Last Roman (1968)

Original title: Kampf um Rom I

Peplum/Historical. West Germany/Italy/Romania. Starring Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Harriet Andersson, Lang Jeffries & Robert Hoffmann. Directed by Robert Siodmak, Andrew Marton (uncredited) & Sergiu Nicolaescu (uncredited).

VCL (Holland). English language. Fullscreen.

A Queen for Ceasar (1962)

Original title: Una Regina per Cesare

Peplum/Historical. Italy/France. Starring Pascale Petit, Gordon Scott, George Ardisson, Rik Battaglia & Barbara Loy. Directed by Piero Pierotti & Viktor Tourjansky.

Sunrise Tapes (Holland). English dubbed. Letterboxed.