Romolo e Remo (1961)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Sergio Corbucci

Writers:

Adriano Bolzoni (dialogue)
Sergio Corbucci (dialogue) (story)

Release Date:

June 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War

Tagline:

The Legendary Conflict of Mankind's Mightiest Mortals!

Plot:

Twin brothers revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city. |

Plot Keywords:

Cheesecake | Sword And Sandal | Beautiful Woman | Slave | Ancient Rome

Cast

Steve Reeves	...	Romulus
Gordon Scott	...	Remus
Virna Lisi	...	Julia
Franco Volpi	...	Amulio
Laura Solari	...	Rea Silvia
Piero Lulli	...	Sulpicius
José Greci	...	Estia
Gianni Musi	...	Glori
Andrea Bosic	...	Faustolo
Enrico Glori	...	Priest
Franco Balducci	...	Acilio
Germano Longo	...	Scebro
Bruno Tocci	...	Soldier
Giuliano Dell'Ovo	...	Publio
Massimo Girotti	...	Tazio

Also Known As:

Duel of the Titans (USA)
Romulus et Remus (France)

Runtime:

Germany:95 min | Italy:108 min | Spain:108 min | USA:89 min | Netherlands:104 min (video version) | UK:88 min

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:12 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:T

Company:

Ajace Produzioni Cinematografiche

Trivia:

Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott, playing twin brothers Romulus and Remus, may not have shared a birthday, but they were both born in the same year - 1926.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Wages of Sin (2003) (V)

Wonder of it all

You have to wonder what possessed the Italians to make all of these awful sand-and-sandal epics in the early-to-mid-'60s, but I guess it was in homage to all those American sand-and-sandal epics that served as Hollywood's effort to keep the masses from hunkering down in front of their newfangled TV sets in the 1950s. Just as the Italians would later crank out endless zombie movies after NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and end-of-the-world programmers in the wake of MAD MAX. This particular cheesefest has not one but two musclebound Americans (Reeves and Scott) playing the legendary twins who founded Rome. I was a kid when all of the Italian muscleman flicks hit these shores, and saw just about everyone of them. Reeves as Hercules followed in the footsteps of Victor Mature as Samson, and then the Italians began copying themselves. The Maciste/Mighty Ursus/Goliath/Son of Samson series were all copies of their own rather unique Hercules movies, for instance. If nothing else, these no-budget, no-brain matinée jobs kept folks like Reeves, Scott and Reg Park (see his IMDb bio) working longer than they might have. Hell, Scott even went on to star in a couple of pre-Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns.