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Dorian Gray | ... | Antiope |
| Rod Taylor | ... | Pirro | |
| Gianna Maria Canale | ... | La Regina | |
| Ed Fury | ... | Glauco | |
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Alberto Farnese | ... | Losco, il pirata |
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Ignazio Leone | ... | Sofo |
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Adriana Facchetti | ... | La sacerdotessa |
| Giorgia Moll | ... | Amazone | |
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Folco Lulli | ||
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Alfredo Varelli | ... | Mercante #1 |
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Gino Buzzanca | ... | Mercante #2 |
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Marco Tulli | ... | Eumeo |
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Renato Tagliani | ... | Nando (as Renato Taliani) |
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Enzo Cerusico | ... | Menandro |
| Daniela Rocca | ... | Melitta (as Daniella Rocca) | |
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After the Trojan War, Glauco is the strongest man amongst the Greeks. His friend Pirro meets two men who offer him a large sum of money to persuade Glauco to sail towards unexplored shores. Pirro accepts the proposal and convinces Glauco with a trick: he hits him on his head. The ship lands at a strange place where Pirro and the other men aboard are drugged and find themselves in the hands of the Amazons. Only Glauco escapes, saved from the Egyptian inventor Sofo and he falls in love with Antiope. Between loves and duels, conspiracies and ruses, the pirates will bring together Amazons and Greeks. Written by Baldinotto da Pistoia
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Country:
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1964 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Amazon #2: He's a puny runt. how'd he get here?
Short Greek: I'm the god's gift to the women of Southern Greece.
[In an anachronistic American Southern accent]
Short Greek: Let's be off, my babes! Y'all my women!
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Amazon #!: [Deciding on which male captive she wants] And you, Shorty?Amazon #2: He's a puny runt. how'd he get here?
Short Greek: I'm the god's gift to the women of Southern Greece.
[In an anachronistic American Southern accent]
Short Greek: Let's be off, my babes! Y'all my women!
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This film is strikingly similar to (and, incredibly, even worse than) Terence Young's THE AMAZONS (1974), which I watched only last month. Rod Taylor, who had just become a star thanks to George Pal's screen version of H.G. Wells' THE TIME MACHINE (1960), unwisely chose to follow it up with this turkey; his performance is embarrassing especially the lamentable attempts at comedy and, in fact, comes off like a cut-rate Tony Curtis! Likewise, Ed Fury makes very little impression as the proverbial muscleman (and, presumably, the Colossus of the title though his character is actually named Glauco, even in the English-dubbed version!).
As for the women, here we have: a rather unattractively made-up Dorian Gray (a regular fixture of Toto' comedies, though she also appeared in one film apiece by Fellini and Antonioni!); Daniela Rocca (best known as the mousy wife Marcello Mastroianni wants to get rid of in Pietro Germi's DIVORCE Italian STYLE [1961]), whose character is constantly falling flat on her face for no apparent reason!; and Gianna Maria Canale (who appeared in countless sword-and-sandal titles but also starred in the first Italian horror film, I VAMPIRI [1956], co-directed by Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava), who's been saddled with the rather thankless role of the Amazon Queen who must fulfill her destiny by remaining a spinster!
Truly, this has to be one of the worst films ever - which prompted director Bertrand Tavernier, then a film critic, to call it "one of the funniest of Italian comedies"! - which, from the very first shot (in which a trumpeter loses his grip on his instrument!), gives you an idea of the clumsiness you are about to witness with the inappropriate 'modern' score (including the dance routines that are a cross between Busby Berkeley and WEST SIDE STORY [1961]!) and the hilarious dubbing (particularly during the one scene where Tiberio Murgia, so memorable as Claudia Cardinale's jealous elder brother in BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET [1958], appears) featuring prominently among its highlights er lowpoints!