Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)

Two musclemen come up against a tribe of Amazon women.

Director:

Vittorio Sala

Writers:

Ennio De Concini, Fulvio Fo

Stars:

Dorian Gray, Rod Taylor, Gianna Maria Canale

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dorian Gray	...	Antiope
Rod Taylor	...	Pirro
Gianna Maria Canale	...	La Regina
Ed Fury	...	Glauco
Alberto Farnese	...	Losco, il pirata
Ignazio Leone	...	Sofo
Adriana Facchetti	...	La sacerdotessa
Giorgia Moll	...	Amazone
Folco Lulli
Alfredo Varelli	...	Mercante #1
Gino Buzzanca	...	Mercante #2
Marco Tulli	...	Eumeo
Renato Tagliani	...	Nando (as Renato Taliani)
Enzo Cerusico	...	Menandro
Daniela Rocca	...	Melitta (as Daniella Rocca)

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

amazon | trojan war | gold | greco roman wrestling | sword fight | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Fantasy

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

1964 (USA)

Also Known As:

Colossus and the Amazon Queen

Company Credits

Production Co:

Galatea Film, Glomer Film, Alta Vista

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the English-language version, the male leads are known as Glaucos and Pirros.

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Quotes

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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Connections

Featured in Midnight Movie Madness: 50 Movie Mega Pack (2016)

User Reviews

One of the Worst Films Ever (Even by Sword and Sandal Standards)

This is horrible.

I've seen pretty much every muscle man movie made in the 1950's and 1960's and this is at the bottom of the list.

First off the dubbing is terrible. The cliche of Japanese monster movies are nothing compared to this.

Secondly its suppose to be a comedy. It appears to have been written and acted as one, unfortunately there is nothing funny about it. The problem is that these films run so close to parody as is that its pointless to make fun of them. The only one that ever worked was the original version of My Son The Hero, which was a good movie even without the humor.

Lastly the sets, costumes, ect are overly bad. Again these films run the fine line between reality and parody. Its all of a style that took hold and effectively killed off the genre about five years after this was produced where spandex, beehive hairdos and Max Factor make-up made everything look silly.

The plot, concerning two muscle men and their encounters with the Amazons is stupid and comes from the low sex comedies that rarely traveled outside of Italy because they were more juvenile than funny.

Its over acted and under done.

One out of ten. Its just bad.