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

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.

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.

Sandokan the Great (1963)

Original title: Sandokan, la Tigre di Mompracem

Pirate/Exotic. Italy/France/Spain. Starring Steve Reeves, Geneviève Grad, Andrea Bosic, Rik Battaglia, Adolfo Celi & Mimmo Palmara. Directed by Umberto Lenzi.

DVD: Impulso Records & Films (Spain). English/spanish language options. Widescreen. Good quality, except for a 5-10 minute part in the middle which appears to be sourced from VHS.

Lenzi's first Sandokan flick - 100% classic stuff! My favorite Steve Reeves film. 5/5

Treasure Island (1972)

Pirate. France/Italy/Spain/UK/West Germany. Starring Orson Welles, Kim Burfield, Walter Slezak, Rik Battaglia, Lionel Stander, Maria Rohm, Paul Muller & Aldo Sambrell. Directed by John Hough, Andrea Bianchi (uncredited) & Antonio Margheriti (uncredited).

Guild Home Video Ltd (UK). English language. Fullscreen.

Sandokan the Great (1963)

Original title: Sandokan, la Tigre di Mompracem

Pirate adventure/Exotic. Italy/France/Spain. Starring Steve Reeves, Geneviève Grad, Andrea Bosic, Rik Battaglia, Adolfo Celi & Mimmo Palmara. Directed by Umberto Lenzi.

VTC (Sweden). English dubbed. Letterboxed.

Lenzi's first Sandokan flick - 100% classic stuff! My favorite Steve Reeves film. 5/5

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.

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

White Fang (1973)

Original title: Zanna Bianca

Adventure/Family/Western. Italy/Spain/France. Starring Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, Fernando Rey, John Steiner, Carole André & Rik Battaglia. Directed by Lucio Fulci.

Viking Video (Sweden). English dubbed. 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

Legend of Sea Wolf (1975)

Original title: Il Lupo dei Mari

Adventure. Italy. Starring Chuck Connors, Barbara Bach, Lars Bloch, Ivan Rassimov, Giuseppe Pambieri & Rik Battaglia. Directed by Giuseppe Vari.

Hemvideo Film (Sweden). English dubbed. Letterboxed. Worn swedish cinema print

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.

The Kings of France (1959)

Original title: I Reali di Francia

Sword. Italy. Starring Rik Battaglia, Chelo Alonso, Gérard Landry, Livio Lorenzon, Liana Orfei & Carlo Tamberlani. Directed by Mario Costa.

EKO (UK). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

I had a really hard time sitting through this film, due to the completely worthless dubbing. Two or three bored dubbers do all the voices with a complete lack of feeling - and you could still hear the italian dub in the background! My grade represents this crap version of the film. 2/5

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.

Lion of St. Mark (1963)

Original title: Il Leone di San Marco

Pirate yarn. Italy. Starring Gordon Scott, Gianna Maria Canale, Alberto Farnese & Rik Battaglia. Directed by Luigi Capuano.

King Video (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen. My copy has some sound problems.

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