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Lon Chaney Sr heads a fine cast as Alonzo, an armless knife thrower circus fakir, in director Tod Browning’s intriguing and engagingly weird, though less-famous 1927 MGM silent chiller The Unknown. Alonzo is literally a […]
Perfectly developed bodybuilder Gordon Mitchell from Denver, Colorado, stars as muscleman Ohro, who goes to the capital of Atlantis to attack its godlessness and battles its evil lord Yotar or Yoh-tar (Roldano Lupi), in director […]
The 1979 boxing movie sequel Rocky II provides another fistful of dollars for Sylvester Stallone as writer, director and star of this virtual reprise of the original 1976 Rocky. In this one, the unemployed, inarticulate, […]
Steve Reeves stars as Goliath in the 1959 Italian peplum film Il terrore dei barbari [Goliath and the Barbarians]. ‘10,000 Sights… 10,000 Thrills… The Fabulous Giant of Giants!’ Co-writer/ director Carlo Campogalliani’s 1959 Italian sword and sandal […]
The always likeable Dwayne Johnson is inevitable star casting as the Greek demigod Hercules, Zeus’s son, who has triumphed in his legendary 12 labours but is still haunted by the loss of his family at the hands […]
Co-writer/director Pietro Francisci’s inevitable 1959 sequel to his and Italy’s 1957 international blockbuster hit Hercules brings muscleman Steve Reeves back with Sylva Koscina’s Iole, now the bride of Hercules, to fight the wicked Queen Omphale of […]
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