Original title: Maciste, Gladiatore di Sparta

Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Mark Forest, Marilù Tolo, Elisabetta Fanti, Claudio Undari & Jacques Stany. Directed by Mario Caiano.

EVC (Holland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

The gladiator Maciste, played by Mark Forest, fights a gorilla and saves some christians from the evil and cunning roman emperor. One of the more entertaining christians Vs. Praetorians flicks out there. 3/5

Goliath and the Dragon (1960) + Conqueror of Atlantis (1965)

Original title: La Vendetta di Ercole

Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Mark Forest, Wandisa Guida, Gaby André & Broderick Crawford. Directed by Vittorio Cottafavi.

DVD: Something Weird (USA). English dubbed. Widescreen. Nice quality. Edited US version. This DVD also includes Alfonso Brescia's highly entertaining 1965 peplum Conqueror of Atlantis in which Kirk Morris romances a princess and fights a mad sorcerer, robot-men and a bunch of arabs! Conqueror is presented in a watchable fullscreen print. (4/5)

Good, clean Cottafavi fun with Mark Forest! 4/5

Maciste, Gladiator of Sparta (1964)

Original title: Maciste, Gladiatore di Sparta

Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Mark Forest, Marilù Tolo, Elisabetta Fanti, Claudio Undari & Jacques Stany. Directed by Mario Caiano.

EVC (Holland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

The gladiator Maciste, played by Mark Forest, fights a gorilla and saves some christians from the evil and cunning roman emperor. One of the more entertaining christians Vs. Praetorians flicks out there. 3/5

Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun (1964)

Original title: Ercole Contro i Figli del Sole

Peplum. Italy/Spain. Starring Mark Forest, Anna Maria Panaro, Giuliano Gemma, Andrea Scotti & Ángela Rhu. Directed by Osvaldo Civirani.

Pirate Video (UK). English dubbed. Letterboxed (slightly).

Hercules travels to South America in this Grade Z peplum. So bad it's... just bad. 1/5

The Magnificent Gladiator (1964)

Original title: Il Magnifico Gladiatore

Peplum. Starring Mark Forest & Marilù Tolo. Directed by Alfonso Brescia.

Delta Video (Holland). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Another one of those not worthless, but unremarkable peplas you have to sit through to discover the hidden jewels. But look at the homoerotic cover art! Amazing! 2/5

The Lion of Thebes (1964)

Original title: Leone di Tebe

Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Mark Forrest, Yvonne Furneaux, Massimo Serato, Pierre Cressoy, Alberto Lupo, Rosalba Neri & Carlo Tamberlani. Directed by Giorgio Ferroni.

King Movies (Holland). English dubbed. Letterboxed.

Fine peplum. 3/5

Kindar the Invulnerable (1964)

Original title: Kindar l'invulnerabile

Peplum/Arabian adventure. Italy/Egypt. Starring Mark Forest, Rosalba Neri, Mimmo Palmara & Howard Ross. Directed by Osvaldo Civirani.

EVC (Holland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

Very good arabian peplum with some always appriciated fantasy touches. The long scene with the two muscular brothers taking off their cloths and whipping each other out in the desert is pure gay S/M-pulp aesthetic! Mark Forest is a bundle of charm as always, you've got to love the guy! Recommended. 4/5

Goliath and the Dragon (1960)

Original title: La Vendetta di Ercole

Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Mark Forest, Wandisa Guida, Gaby André & Broderick Crawford. Directed by Vittorio Cottafavi.

Videoscope (Holland). English dubbed. Letterboxed. A pretty dark print.

No matter what the cover says this is not the 1958 Hercules starring Steve Reeves, but pulp genius Vittorio Cottafavi's fun Goliath and the Dragon (the european Vengeance of Hercules-version, not the US cut) with Mark Forest. 4/5

Kindar the Invulnerable (1964)

Original title: Kindar l'invulnerabile

Peplum/Arabian adventure. Italy/Egypt. Starring Mark Forest, Rosalba Neri, Mimmo Palmara & Howard Ross. Directed by Osvaldo Civirani.

Baroness Video (Sweden). English dubbed. Widescreen.

Very good arabian peplum with some always appriciated fantasy touches. The long scene with the two muscular brothers taking off their cloths and whipping each other out in the desert is pure gay S/M-pulp aesthetic! Mark Forest is a bundle of charm as always, you've got to love the guy! Recommended. 4/5