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The tyrant Balthazar(habitual nasty Spaghetti Western ,Folco Lulli), usurper of Babylone, rules the city with violence and atrocities. He organizes continuous sacrifices of maids along with the priestess(Moira Orfei, usual Peplum along with her sister Liana Orfei) of Astarte. Nippur(Gordon Scott),legitimate heir of throne, returns from exile with aim to retrieve the kingdom left by his father Sargon, kidnapped by Balthazar. During journey , Nippur frees Tamira(Genevieve Grad), a Jewish girl prepared to be sacrificed for Goddess Ishtar. Nippur is imprisoned by the usurper, but he escapes and is helped by king Persian Cyrus(Mario Petri).This is an agreeable Sword and Sandals movie with noisy action, extraordinaries adventures, usual dancing scenes and spectacular final battles. Gordon Scott is nice as the mythical hero who finds several dangerous situations while attempting save his lover and recover the throne. He acted as a bouncing hero in great number of films and was randomly assigned the identity of Hercules, Goliath, Samsom for US viewers . Scott usually playing historic characters, such as ¨Coroliano, Mucius Scevola and Remo¨. He was one along with Ed Fury, Dan Vadis, Alain Steel, Mark Forest, Reg Park, among others, whom the seek fame and fortune acting absurdly muscle mythological figures, but nobody topped Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott in popularity.The film follows a similar plot to famous film ¨Intolerance¨(1916)by DW Griffith, about the fall of Babylone, though here appears a pretty malicious Balthazar, well played by Folco Lulli, but not the biblical history about 'prophet Daniel and the lions' . However the movie has not mythological accuracy neither expecting historical. Another pictures about these Babylonic events are the following: ¨I Semiramide(1953)¨by Primo Zeglio with Ivonne Furneaux and John Erickson; ¨Semiramis, slave and Queen¨ by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia; and ¨Seven thunderbolts(1962)¨ by Silvio Amadio with Jackie Lane and Howard Duff .
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