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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #150 on: July 04, 2019, 12:20:29 PM »
just re watched this gem the other night.
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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #151 on: December 20, 2019, 07:12:55 AM »
steve reeves in a pre-broadway play in 1955 two years before hercules.
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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #152 on: December 20, 2019, 09:30:09 AM »
Hey Funk - Season's Greetings buddy  :)

Got hold of the '61 Thief of Baghdad in HD - is it a good watch..?


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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #153 on: December 21, 2019, 08:02:53 AM »
Hey Funk - Season's Greetings buddy  :)

Got hold of the '61 Thief of Baghdad in HD - is it a good watch..?


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I've got the "standard" DVD (somewhere, I just can't recall exactly where, LOL!) and it will depend upon the source from which yours was made but mine DVD isn't a whole lot better than the VHS I also can't find.  ;D

I recently bought the Ultra HD version of "Groundhog Day" and can honestly state that it really wasn't worth it as the Blu-Ray was pretty much just as good.


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« Reply #154 on: December 22, 2019, 03:40:00 AM »
I've got the "standard" DVD (somewhere, I just can't recall exactly where, LOL!) and it will depend upon the source from which yours was made but mine DVD isn't a whole lot better than the VHS I also can't find.  ;D

I recently bought the Ultra HD version of "Groundhog Day" and can honestly state that it really wasn't worth it as the Blu-Ray was pretty much just as good.


Thanks Scott.  The picture quality is first class, so I was more interested in if the film itself is good/worth watching - did you enjoy it?  (If you can remember!  ;D)
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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #155 on: December 23, 2019, 10:16:40 AM »
Hey Funk - Season's Greetings buddy  :)

Got hold of the '61 Thief of Baghdad in HD - is it a good watch..?


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              i have a dvd copy from years back it might be a bootleg, not really sure.it's as good as any movie in that genre. i still have the comic book of it.
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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #156 on: December 23, 2019, 10:18:14 AM »
for a synopsis with pics of all these movies i recommend this book. also www.peplumtv.com has a review of it as their main story right now.
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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #157 on: January 06, 2020, 12:27:11 PM »
 :D mark forrest aka lou degni turns 87 on this day.
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« Reply #158 on: February 11, 2020, 07:01:44 AM »
 ;D      the two heroes of this movie fighting over a wild boar.
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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #159 on: February 28, 2020, 07:53:59 PM »
Thanks Scott.  The picture quality is first class, so I was more interested in if the film itself is good/worth watching - did you enjoy it?  (If you can remember!  ;D)

Heck yeah!  The film was a favorite of mine as a kid.   ;D  Come to think of it, all of those films were.  I even enjoyed the TV series (it was awful) "The Sons of Hercules".  I knew the theme song by heart back then... ;D

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« Reply #160 on: February 29, 2020, 06:37:33 AM »
Heck yeah!  The film was a favorite of mine as a kid.   ;D  Come to think of it, all of those films were.  I even enjoyed the TV series (it was awful) "The Sons of Hercules".  I knew the theme song by heart back then... ;D
                   you can listen to song on you tube.
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« Reply #161 on: February 29, 2020, 06:56:53 AM »
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« Reply #162 on: February 29, 2020, 06:59:36 AM »
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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #163 on: February 29, 2020, 08:51:59 AM »
                   you can listen to song on you tube.

You know it's now stuck in what passes for my brain...I recall changing  some of the lyrics to this:

"They are there, when pretty girls are bare.  They are here to show that they're not queer".  Or something like that.  ;D

Childhood.   It was weird but fun. My face was in a book or comics or watching the 3Stooges.  Or I was outside on my bicycle.  Or fishing with some friends.  A mild version of "Stand By Me", if you will.

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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #164 on: March 04, 2020, 06:32:16 AM »
You know it's now stuck in what passes for my brain...I recall changing  some of the lyrics to this:

"They are there, when pretty girls are bare.  They are here to show that they're not queer".  Or something like that.  ;D

Childhood.   It was weird but fun. My face was in a book or comics or watching the 3Stooges.  Or I was outside on my bicycle.  Or fishing with some friends.  A mild version of "Stand By Me", if you will.
    the good old days.
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« Reply #165 on: March 20, 2020, 07:38:04 AM »
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Re: sword and sandal, peplums stars
« Reply #166 on: March 26, 2020, 06:26:28 PM »
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Lou looked bad ass for that movie.best build he ever had

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Re: Sword and Sandal - Bodybuilders - Peplums stars
« Reply #167 on: July 12, 2020, 09:35:21 AM »
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-sep-25-me-mitchell25-story.html

From 2003 - History

By MYRNA OLIVER
SEP. 25, 200312 AM
TIMES STAFF WRITER

Gordon Mitchell, a bodybuilder who joined entertainer Mae West’s buffed all-male chorus line in the mid-1950s and went on to make about 200 B-movies, excelling in the “sword and sandal” genre, has died. He was 80. Mitchell died Saturday night in his sleep at his Marina del Rey home of an apparent heart attack, said his personal assistant, Bill Comstock. The still-fit actor had been in good health, Comstock said, and had recently completed a film in Germany.

Of all the European spaghetti westerns, sci-fi flicks and sparsely scripted fantasy adventures of ancient heroes saving fair damsels and suffering hordes, Mitchell’s most noted film probably was Federico Fellini’s 1970 “Fellini Satyricon.” Mitchell played a robber in the colorful portrait of ancient Roman debauchery, which is still an art-house favorite.

Mitchell, who lived and filmed in Italy from 1961 to 1989, was featured in the Swords & Sandals Festival presented in June by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. His showcased film was the 1961 “The Giant of Metropolis,” in which he portrayed the title’s prehistoric, loincloth-clad muscleman who endures torture in a weird futuristic world.

“I did my own stunts. I tried to make everything real,” Mitchell told The Times during the festival, adding that he often worked on three films at once and trained constantly off-camera, often lifting rocks when no barbells were available. On Labor Day in 2001, Mitchell, former Mr. Universe Mickey Hargitay and five of their fellow celluloid he-men were honored by the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks at Venice’s Muscle Beach, where they first built the muscles that made them beefcake stars.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s when the bodybuilders, including fitness advocates Joe Gold, Vic Tanny and Jack LaLanne, worked out at Muscle Beach, society matrons and celebrities alike would come to ogle. One admirer was the aging but canny Mae West, who realized decades before Madonna that scantily clad boy toys could enliven her stage act.

The exposure earned Mitchell uncredited roles in some major A-list films of the 1950s, including “Prisoner of War,” starring Ronald Reagan; “The Man With the Golden Arm,” starring Frank Sinatra; and “The Ten Commandments,” featuring Charlton Heston. But Mitchell still didn’t give up his day job as a Los Angeles high school teacher and guidance counselor. Not until muscleman Steve Reeves starred in the 1959 “Hercules,” which touched off a new genre of movies about bigger-than-life heroes of ancient Greece and Rome.

Then Mitchell moved to Italy and really started making movies. His first starring role was as Maciste, a strongman of Italian folklore turned into the better-known Atlas for American audiences in what was titled in the U.S. “Atlas Against the Cyclops.” Mitchell also played other mythical or literary giants: Pluto, Goliath, Igor, Ali Baba. The stern-faced bodybuilder remained in demand over the years as a general or other military officer of armies from various nations and eras.

The knockoff Hercules films were made cheaply in Italy and Spain, mostly by Italian production companies. The little dialogue they featured could easily be dubbed into many languages, making the bodybuilders international stars.  Mitchell, like others, acknowledged that he never knew what was going on in a film because he couldn’t read or speak Italian.

Born Charles Pendleton in Denver, Mitchell moved to Los Angeles to attend USC. He served in the Army during World War II, seeing action in the Battle of the Bulge, and reenlisted for the Korean War.

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Re: Sword and Sandal - Bodybuilders - Peplums stars
« Reply #168 on: July 14, 2020, 02:27:48 PM »
Gordon Mitchell on imdb
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Born   July 29, 1923 in Denver, Colorado, USA
Died   September 20, 2003 in Marina Del Rey, California, USA  (heart attack)
Birth Name   Charles Allen Pendleton
Height   6' 3" (1.91 m)
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Gordon Mitchell was one of those perfectly developed bodybuilders who jumped on the Steve Reeves bandwagon and hightailed it to Italy to seek movie stardom as a Herculean strongman. Born in Denver, Colorado, but raised in Inglewood, California, Mitchell served in WWII and at one point became a prisoner of war. After the war he went to college and became a high school teacher, albeit an imposing one, what with his incredible physique. He eventually became part of the "Muscle Beach" crowd and flexed his way into the entertainment field as part of Mae West's musclebound revues, where he toured everywhere from Las Vegas to the Latin Quarter with other "abs"normal actor wannabes such as Mickey Hargitay, Brad Harris and Reg Lewis. Mitchell took a fancy to show biz and appeared as posing beefcake in such films as The Ten Commandments (1956) and Li'l Abner (1959), which, of course, did little to advance his acting career. In 1961, after Reeves' Hercules (1958) (US title: "Hercules") proved a phenomenal hit and revived the "muscleman" genre, the non-Italian-speaking Mitchell headed off to Europe and began appearing in the same type of badly dubbed sandal-and-spear epics. Adept at displaying both heroics and villainy, he developed his own core of fans, but when the fad wore off around 1965, Mitchell--unlike many of his colleagues in that field who just dropped out of sight--stayed on and appeared in over 100 more films, many of them in the "spaghetti western" genre, staying true to the country that made him a star.
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Served in the U.S. army in the Korean War.
Early in his career he toured as one of a group of "strongman" performers--one of whom was Mickey Hargitay--in Mae West's nightclub act.
He built amost single-handedly a small western-like village in the Roman countryside, that was used as the set for several Italian B-westerns.
Following his success in Italy, he helped his muscular friend Dan Vadis get into the Italian movie business.
His funeral memorial service was attended by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Roland Kickinger, Franco Columbu, Mickey Hargitay, Richard Harrison, Sebastian Harrison, Joe Gold, Scott Brown, Michael A. Martinez, and Robert Amstler in front of the World Gym corporate headquarters.
Honored by the UCLA Film Archive at a July 6, 2003, festival showing of The Giant of Metropolis (1961) in a theater on the Los Angeles campus.
Owner of World Gym International in Marina Del Rey, California [April 2002]
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Re: Sword and Sandal - Bodybuilders - Peplums stars
« Reply #169 on: July 14, 2020, 02:29:03 PM »
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Alternate Names: Mitchell Gordon | Gordon Mitchel | Charles Pendleton
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Re: Sword and Sandal - Bodybuilders - Peplums stars
« Reply #170 on: July 14, 2020, 02:34:11 PM »
arnold was always impressed chick's underarm vascularity.   
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Re: Sword and Sandal - Bodybuilders - Peplums stars
« Reply #171 on: July 15, 2020, 11:16:08 AM »
peplum star of the day howard ross.   Howard Ross
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Born   January 10, 1941 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birth Name   Renato Rossini
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Howard Ross was born on January 10, 1941 in Rome, Lazio, Italy as Renato Rossini. He is an actor, known for Samson and the Mighty Challenge (1964), New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (1958) and Zorro the Rebel (1966).
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« Reply #172 on: July 15, 2020, 11:19:06 AM »
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 1972A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services
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 1972Ragazza tutta nuda assassinata nel parco
Günther
 1971Sergeant Klems
Hamed
 1971When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Mash
 1971Marta
Luis
 1971The Great Swindle
Joven
 1970New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts (TV Series)
Rocco
- Fidelio - A Celebration of Life (1970) ... Rocco
 1970Five Dolls for an August Moon
Jack Davidson
 1970The Dove Must Not Fly
 1969Poppea's Hot Nights
Marco
 1969Viva Cangaceiro
Hoffmann
 1969The Battle of Neretva
Mario (as Renato Rossini)
 1969Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven
Vice-sceriffo
 1969Bridge Over the Elbe
Hinds
 1968Bloody Che Contra
Pepe
 1968Emma Hamilton
Dick Strong
 1968Wrath of God
Jessy
 1968Dirty Heroes
Randall
 196715 Scaffolds for a Murderer
Steve
 1967Desert Commandos
Willy Mainz
 1967Wanted Johnny Texas
O'Connor
 1966Zorro the Rebel
Zorro / Don Ramiro
 1966Johnny Colt
Jop
 1966Missione sabbie roventi
 1966Savage Gringo
Lou Felton (as Red Ross)
 1965The Relentless Four
Troy (as Red Ross)
 1965The Falcon of the Desert
Jafar (as Red Ross)
 1965Kindar the Invulnerable
Siro (as Red Ross)
 1964Samson and the Mighty Challenge
Maciste (as Red Ross)
 1964Sword of the Empire
Leto (as Renato Rossini)
 1964Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors
Gordio (as Renato Rossini)
 1964The Slave Merchants
Hasien, Kamal's Bodyguard
 1964The Revolt of the Seven
Croto (as Renato Rossini)
 1964Hercules Against the Barbarians
Gason (as Renato Rossini)
 1964Hercules the Invincible
Captain of the Guard (as Red Ross)
 1964Atlas Against the Czar
Chief of the Raiders (as Renato Rossini)
 1963Hercules Against the Mongols
Susdal (as Renato Rossini)
 1962La notte dell'innominato
 1960Esther and the King
Gladiator (uncredited)
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Re: Sword and Sandal - Bodybuilders - Peplums stars
« Reply #173 on: July 16, 2020, 12:52:48 PM »
peplum star of the day  Kirk Morris
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Born   August 26, 1942 in Venice, Veneto, Italy
Birth Name   Adriano Bellini
Height   6' 1" (1.85 m)
Mini Bio (1)
One of the many muscle men of peplum who dominated Italian sword-and-sandal epics in the early 60s, Italian Kirk Morris (born Adriano Bellini) was born in the late 1930s and plucked from the canals of Venice for his go at moviedom. A gondolier when discovered by an Italian movie producer, he was deemed a perfect speciman to showcase their spectacles and a fitting hero to help offset the silly special effects and ridiculously dubbed dialogue. If one must try to distinguish Kirk from the rest of the mythical bodybuilders (Steve Reeves, Alan Steel, Richard Harrison, Dan Vadis, Reg Park, Brad Harris, et al.), he often dyed his pompadour-styled hair blond and he had a slight, sulky resemblance to Elvis Presley. Other than that his stoic posings of Hercules, Samson, Maciste and the others were no better or worse. Once the genre had lost its audience in the mid-60s, Kirk maintained for a few more years in war stories and westerns, but eventually migrated to the United States where he went into the advertising field. Years later he returned to Italy and the movies -- this time as a producer.
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Trade Mark (1)
Bare-chested bondage scenes
Trivia (5)
Footage from his film Il trionfo di Maciste (1961) was humorously used in a deodorant commercial in the late 1960s, with Kirk flexing and boldly restraining horses during a chariot racing sequence. The female narrator softly purrs, "My brother works hard... he needs a strong deodorant".
Despite his Anglo-sounding screen name, he was one of the very few Italian bodybuilders (his real name is Adriano Bellini) to achieve stardom in the sword and sandal/mythological muscleman genre. This also made him one of the few leading performers who was able to speak the Italian dialog from the script.
Twice subjected to the traditional "Test of Strength" found in sword-and-sandal movies. In both Il trionfo di Maciste (1961) and Atlas Against the Czar (1964) he was tied with outstretched arms between two teams of horses, which then endeavored to pull him apart. In neither case did the horses succeed.
Was a gondolier on a canal boat in Venice, Italy, before becoming an actor.
As his acting career in movies drew to a close, Kirk Morris became a fotoromanzi actor.
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Re: Sword and Sandal - Bodybuilders - Peplums stars
« Reply #174 on: July 16, 2020, 12:54:36 PM »
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 1970Overrun!
Liam Mc Gregor
 1969The Seven Red Berets
O'Fearn
 1968Sapevano solo uccidere
Jeff Smart
 1967Crazy Westerners
Ringo
 1966Star Pilot
Belsy
 1965The Falcon of the Desert
Kadir
 1965Maciste il vendicatore dei Maya
Ercole
 1965The Conqueror of Atlantis
Heracles
 1964Hercules of the Desert
Maciste
 1964Desert Raiders
Nadir
 1964The Slave Merchants
Anthar, Son of Hercules
 1964Atlas Against the Czar
Maciste
 1964Terror of the Steppes
Sandar Khan
 1963Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
Hercules
 1963Sansone contro i pirati
Sansone
 1963Colossus and the Headhunters
Maciste
 1962Clash of Steel
Samson
 1962The Witch's Curse
Maciste
 1961Hercules in the Valley of Woe
Maciste
 1961Il trionfo di Maciste
Maciste
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Trivia: Twice subjected to the traditional "Test of Strength" found in sword-and-sandal movies. In both Il trionfo di Maciste (1961) and Atlas Against the Czar (1964) he was tied with outstretched arms between two teams of horses, which then endeavored to pull him apart. In neither case did the horses succeed. See more »
Trademark: Bare-chested bondage scenes
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