Babylonia (1963)

The rightful heir to the throne of Babylon leads a slave revolt against an evil ruler.

Director:

Siro Marcellini

Writers:

Gian Paolo Callegari, Siro Marcellini

Stars:

Gordon Scott, Geneviève Grad, Andrea Scotti

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Gordon Scott	...	Nippur
Geneviève Grad	...	Tamira
Andrea Scotti	...	Namar
Célina Cély	...	Agar
Moira Orfei	...	Ura
Mario Petri	...	Zairo, King of Persia
Piero Lulli	...	Balthazar
Andrea Aureli	...	Anarsi
Giuseppe Addobbati	...	Licardio
Paola Petrini
Harold Bradley	...	Mursuk
Aldo Pini
Giuseppe Mattei
Oreste Lionello
Consalvo Dell'Arti

Storyline

When the high-born Nippur returns to Babylon following a long stay in Persia, he rescues slave-girl Tamira from the soldiers of the evil usurper, Balthazar. Nippur then pays a courtesy visit to Balthazar's court where he meets the high-priestess Ura who has ambitions to become queen and who casts a lustful eye on this new visitor. Later, shocked by the cruelty of Balthazar's reign and influenced by a group of rebels, Nippur interrupts a fiery sacrifice of virgins. Forced to flee Babylon, Nippur -- wounded by an arrow in the back -- is restored to health by the forces of the Persian king, Cyrus, who are marching toward Babylon. Nippur slips back into Babylon where he's captured and chained to a wall inside a dungeon. Using his great strength, Nippur breaks free, rescues Tamira before she can be sacrificed, and engages Balthazar in a to-the-death sword fight. The Persian army now arrives and Cyrus, before returning home, sees to it that Nippur sits on the throne of Babylon with the ...

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Plot Keywords:

slave | dungeon | sword fight | sword and sandal | greco roman wrestling | 

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Taglines:

Slave girls sacrificed at the whim of a ruthless king!

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Genres:

Adventure

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Details

Official Sites:

Distributor's official site Productor's official site

Country:

Italy France

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

3 July 1964 (West Germany)

Also Known As:

The Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules

Company Credits

Production Co:

Compagnia Internazionale Realizzazioni Artistiche Cinematografiche (CIRAC), Films Internazionali Artistici (FIA), Gladiator Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of the few movies to show Gordon Scott with chest hair.

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Quotes

Ura: [to Nippur] I'll be waiting for you in the temple.

User Reviews

Another sword and sandal flick with Gordon Scott

Say what you want about the genre of sword and sandal films. Without any historical credibility whatsoever or any similarities with the historical/mythical characters that give the heroes their names some muscle men, mostly American bodybuilders fight for freedom and glory somewhere in the ancient world. This time around it's Gordon Scott as prince Nippur (name taken from an ancient Summerian city located in modern day Iraq) returning from exile after calls from the oppressed people of Babylon, tormented by their usurper with slavery and human sacrifices. In the tradition of Samson and Hercules prince Nippur has superhuman strength, hence overpowering the evil forces to bring freedom and justice back to the empire. Sounds a bit like Anakin Skywalkers/Darth Vaders monologue before the climatic battle at the end of Star Wars Episode 3, though the story is a little too interlaced for film of that length. I like this cheesy flicks on a lazy Saturday morning like today, especially as I', down with a cold, the downside of this movie is that there are way too many characters, both good and evil,too long scenes of sacrifices and random violence against the slaved populace - I mean we get it, the bad guy is REALLY bad - and stereotypical scenes where the trapped or chained hero overcomes all odds in a heroic display of his power to jump in for the rescue at the end. It is entertaining, no doubts there, but with a dozen women wearing same or similar wigs all guys wearing fake beards and armor it's kinda hard to follow the story in detail. You leave for 5 minutes and you don't know what happened cause all throughout the flick new characters are introduced - or killed. The story itself is very interchangeable, so if you'd put in Hercules and a Greek polis where this stuff had happened, it would have worked just as well. For situations like mine atm, where I can't do anything else anyways this film is good, would have been perfect if the storyline was more simple, but other than that it has most things that makes a cheesy sword and sandal flick so entertaining. Silly costumes, bad acting, bad fake beards, bad wigs, random backdrops from obviously various other productions and lots of scenes where a muscle man can show his biceps. 4 or 10 points, however quite entertaining.