''The Invincible Brothers Maciste'' ( it, Gli invincibili fratelli Maciste) is a 1964 Italian

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 H ...

written and directed by

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 d ...

.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 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 ...

as Queen Thaliade *

Tony Freeman Toney Freeman (born August 30, 1966) is an American IFBB professional bodybuilder and brand ambassador residing in Atlanta, Georgia. Biography Freeman's nickname is The X-Man because his body characterizes the "X-frame" of classical bodybuildi ...

as Maciste The Young *

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 als ...

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.

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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 ...

1960s fantasy adventure films Italian fantasy adventure films Peplum films Maciste films Films directed by Roberto Mauri Sword and sandal films Films with screenplays by Edoardo Mulargia 1960s Italian films {{adventure-film-stub