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Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan was released in Italy on October 31, 1961 where it was distributed by Jolly Film in Rome and Unidis throughout Italy. [1] The film grossed 467.2 million Italian lire on its theatrical release. [1] The film was released theatrically in the United States as Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World. [3]
Colossus and the Headhunters was partially shot in Ljubljana in Yugoslavia. [2] For some special effects scenes, Maletesta re-used the volcano footage from his previous film Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules. [3] Filming was finished in 1962, which allowed the director to finish working on Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules. [4]
Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano in a pause during the shootings of Ulysses (1954) by Mario Camerini. Sword-and-sandal films are a specific class of Italian adventure films that have subjects set in Biblical or classical antiquity, often with plots based more or less loosely on Greco-Roman history or the other contemporary cultures of the time, such as the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Etruscans ...
Maciste all'inferno (1925 film) Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan; Maciste and Prisoner 51; Maciste and the Chinese Chest; Maciste and the Javanese; Maciste and the Silver King's Daughter; Maciste, the Avenger of the Mayans; Maciste in King Solomon's Mines; Maciste in the Lion's Cage; Maciste the Athlete; Maciste the Policeman; Maciste's ...
Films about Samson, the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the last leaders who "judged" Israel before the institution of the monarchy.
Maciste made his debut in the 1914 Italian silent movie classic Cabiria. Cabiria is a story about a slave named Maciste (played by Bartolomeo Pagano) who was involved in the rescue of a Roman girl named Cabiria (played by Lidia Quaranta) from an evil Carthaginian priest who plotted to sacrifice her to the cruel god Moloch.
Born in Venice as Adriano Bellini, while at university Morris devoted himself to bodybuilding and thanks to his physique he was chosen by the director Tanio Boccia to play the title role in The Triumph of Maciste.
Samson and His Mighty Challenge is a 1964 Italian sword-and-sandal film, released in 1965 at the very tail end of the peplum craze. Its original title was Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili (Hercules, Samson, Maciste, and Ursus: the Invincibles).