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The Invincible Brothers Maciste
''The Invincible Brothers Maciste'' ( it, Gli invincibili fratelli Maciste) is a 1964 Italian peplum film written and directed by Roberto Mauri.Michele Giordano. ''Giganti buoni''. Gremese Editore, 1998. . Plot Two Herculean warrior brothers battle to save their prince from the clutches of an evil queen, in a hidden world lurking behind a giant waterfall. The depraved queen practices mind-control and must force her slave population to continually turn a waterwheel lest their world come to an end. Cast * Richard Lloyd as Maciste The Old * Claudie Lange as Queen Thaliade * Tony Freeman as Maciste The Young * Anthony Steffen as Prince Akim * Ursula Davis as Jana * Gia Sandri as Nice Release ''The Invincible Brothers Maciste'' was released theatrically in Italy on 18 December 1964. On its release in the United States, the film had a different running time of 92 minutes. References Bibliography * External links *''The Invincible Brothers Maciste''at Variety Distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Mauri
Roberto Mauri (born 1924) is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. Life and career Born Giuseppe Tagliavia in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Mauri began his career as a film actor in low-budget films, occasionally even playing main roles. He debuted as a director co-directing with Andrea Bianchi the crime film ''La legge del mitra'', in which he was also an actor. Mainly active between the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, Mauri specialized in the Spaghetti Western genre, in which he was sometimes credited as Robert Johnson. Selected filmography ;Actor * ''The Devil's Gondola'' (1946) * ''The Opium Den'' (1947) * ''They Were Three Hundred'' (1952) * ''Francis the Smuggler'' (1953) * ''La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi'' (1953) ;Director and screenwriter * ''Slaughter of the Vampires'' (1962) * '' Three Swords for Rome'' (1964) * '' The Invincible Brothers Maciste'' (1964) * ''Night of Violence'' (1965) * '' Vengeance Is My Forgiveness'' (1968) * ''Kong Island'' (1968) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edoardo Mulargia
Edoardo Mulargia (10 December 1925 – 7 September 2005) was an Italian director and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Torpè, Nuoro, Mulargia graduated in Law, first working as a journalist, then directing numerous scientific and industrial short films. After being assistant of Pietro Germi and Luciano Emmer, in 1963 he made his feature film debut with ''Le due leggi''. As a film director Mulargia specialized in the spaghetti western genre, in which he was usually credited as Tony Moore and Edward G. Muller. In the 1980s he abandoned cinema to work for RAI television. Selected filmography * '' The Invincible Brothers Maciste'' (screenwriter, 1964) * '' Three Swords for Rome'' (screenwriter, 1964) * '' Night of Violence'' (screenwriter, 1965) * '' Perché uccidi ancora'' (director and screenwriter, 1965) * '' Cjamango'' (director, 1967) * '' The Reward's Yours... The Man's Mine'' (director and screenwriter, 1969) * ''Shango'' (director and screenwriter, 1970) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iloosh Khoshabe
Ilush Khoshabe (1932–2012) was an Iranian bodybuilder and actor who was born to Assyrian parents in Geogtapa, Iran. In Assyrian, the name Khoshabe (or Khoshaba) means 'Sunday.' He appeared in a number of films produced across the Middle East and Europe under a variety of pseudonyms, including Rod Flash Ilush, Richard Lloyd, Iloosh Khoshabe, and the mononyms Ilush and Iloosh. Khoshabe is best known for starring in Italian '' peplum'' films produced in the early 1960s, including ''Vulcan, Son of Jupiter'' and ''The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba'' (both 1962), as well as ''Hercules, Samson and Ulysses'' (1963) and '' The Invincible Brothers Maciste'' (1964). Selected filmography *''Prince Arsalan'' (aka ''Amir Arsalan-e namdar'') (1955) as Amir Arsalan (billed as ''Ilush'') *''Vulcan, Son of Jupiter'' (1962) as Vulcan (billed as ''Rod Flash Ilush'') *''The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba'' (1962) as Ali Baba (billed as ''Rod Flash Ilush'') *''Hercules, Samson and Ulysses ''Hercules, Samson a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Novelli
Mario Novelli (26 February 1940 – 21 August 2016) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1962. He died on 21 August 2016. Filmography References External links * 1940 births Italian male film actors 2016 deaths {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudie Lange
Claudie Lange is a Belgian actress and model, mainly active in Italian cinema. Lange entered the film industry at 21, when she met Federico Fellini during a vacation in Rome; Fellini gave her a minor part in ''Juliet of the Spirits'' (1965), and after that she appeared in ''The Bible'' (1966), the Roger Moore spy thriller '' Crossplot'' (1969), and in a large number of Italian genre movies, including the cult giallo films ''Death Walks on High Heels'' (1971) and ''Death Walks at Midnight'' (1972). Filmography {{columnslist, * ''El castigo'' (1973) as Françoise * ''Death Walks at Midnight'' (1972) as Verushka Wuttenberg * ''My Horse, My Gun, Your Widow'' (1972) as Deborah Page * ''Death Walks on High Heels'' (1971) as Vanessa Matthews * ''Quickly - Spari e baci a colazione'' (1971) * ''Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?'' (1971) as Luisa - Bordiga's wife * ''El divorcio'' (1970) as Sandra * ''Love Me, Baby, Love Me!'' (1970) as Ghita * ''La pelle a scacchi (Il distacco) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety Distribution
Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward. History Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film production and distribution business worldwide since 1945. The company manages the rights for all types of exploitation, including on digital platforms, of an extensive library of titles in a variety of genres, while also dealing with restoration and long-term digital preservation of audiovisual products in partnership with an international network of companies and professionals specializing in the film, audiovisual and multimedia industries. Activities The company participates in major film festivals and markets, including MIPTV, MIPCOM and the Cannes Film Festival, EFM European Film Market during the Berlin International Film Festival, DISCOP in Budapest. At the Cannes Film Festival 2022, it participated by premiering the film "Back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peplum Film
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pepla plural), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or Biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as ''Samson and Delilah'' (1949), ''Quo Vadis'' (1951), ''The Robe'' (1953), ''The Ten Commandments'' (1956), '' Ben-Hur'' (1959), ''Spartacus'' (1960), and ''Cleopatra'' (1963). These films dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by spaghetti Western and Eurospy films. The term "peplum" (a Latin word referring to the Ancient Greek garment ''peplos''), was introduced by French film critics in the 1960s. The terms "peplum" and "sword-and-sandal" were used in a condescending way by film critics. Later, the terms were embraced by fans of the films, similar to the terms "spaghetti Western" or "shoot-'em-ups". In their English versions, peplum films ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Steffen
Anthony Steffen, born Antonio Luiz de Teffé von Hoonholtz (July 21, 1930 – June 4, 2004), was an Italian-Brazilian character actor, screenwriter and film producer. Steffen achieved fame as a leading man in Spaghetti Western features. He was also known as Antonio Luigi de Teffe. Biography Born Antonio Luiz de Teffé von Hoonholtz at the Brazilian embassy in Rome, in the Pamphilj Palace, his family had noble blood of a long lineage of Count (von Hoonholtz) originally from Prussia; his great grandfather was the Great Baron of Teffé. Steffen was the first born among Manoel de Teffe' von Hoonholtz's children (followed by Federico de Teffe' and Melissa de Teffe'), who was a Formula One racing champion and later a Brazilian Ambassador. Steffen's grandaunt was Nair de Teffé von Hoonholtz, the first female caricaturist of Brazil, wife of Brazilian President Hermes Fonseca and daughter of the Admiral Antonio Luis von Hoonholtz. While still a teenager Steffen, then known as Antonio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s Fantasy Adventure Films
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Italian Fantasy Adventure Films
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Peplum Films
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Peplum originates in the Greek word for 'tunic' and may refer to one of the following: * Sword-and-sandal films, a genre of Greco-Roman era costume adventure films, mostly made in Italy, also known as "peplum". * ''Péplum'' (novel), a 1996 work by Belgian novelist Amélie Nothomb. *Peplos, a kind of women's garment in ancient Greece. *An overskirt An overskirt is a type of women's short skirt which is draped over another garment, such as a skirt, breeches, or trousers. Although peplum is often used as another term for overskirt, it should not be confused with the ''peplos'' or "peplum dress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maciste Films
Maciste () is one of the oldest recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from the 1910s to the mid-1960s. He is usually depicted as a Hercules-like figure, utilizing his massive strength to achieve heroic feats that ordinary men cannot. Many of the 1960s Italian movies featuring Maciste were retitled in other countries, substituting more popular names in the titles (such as Hercules, Goliath or Samson). Name There are a number of references to the name in literature. The name of Maciste appears in a sentence in Strabo's ''Geography'' (Book 8, Chapter 3, Section 21), in which he writes: – "And in the middle is the temple of the Macistian Heracles, and the river Acidon." The epithet Μακίστιος (Makistios, Latinized as ''Macistius'') is generally understood to be an adjective referring to a town called Μάκιστος (Makistos) in the province of Triphylia in Elis. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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