Maciste ja Idän prinsessa

Original title: Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan

19611961
K-16K-16
1h 35m

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4.8/10

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Hélène Chanel, Gordon Scott, and Yôko Tani in Maciste ja Idän prinsessa (1961)

Adventure Drama

Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.Sam must rescue a beautiful Chinese princess from a marauding horde of warriors.

IMDb RATING

4.8/10

256

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

48,340

6,941

Director
- Riccardo Freda
Writers
- Oreste Biancoli(story)
- Duccio Tessari(screenplay)
- George Gonneau(US version)
Stars

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Gordon Scott in Maciste ja Idän prinsessa (1961)

Valéry Inkijinoff in Maciste ja Idän prinsessa (1961)

Yôko Tani in Maciste ja Idän prinsessa (1961)

Hélène Chanel in Maciste ja Idän prinsessa (1961)

Trivia
With the massive exterior sets, lavish interior sets and a multitude of Asian extras left over from Marco Polo (1962), Panda Productions had writers Oreste Biancoli and Duccio Tessari fashion a sword-and-sandal/mythological muscleman epic - a genre that had become highly popular around the world - placing hero Maciste in a Chinese setting. Genre specialist Riccardo Freda was brought in to direct, Gordon Scott was cast as Maciste (renamed "Samson" for the U.S. version) and Yôko Tani was kept on as the female lead.

Goofs
When the new execution device is being demonstrated, Maciste makes his way through a crowd of Chinese people. Although he is much larger than anyone else, and is almost naked, nobody seems to notice him.

Quotes
Kiutai: [Motioniong to two collapsed men under torture] There're your rebels...
[adressing Princess Lei-ling]
Kiutai: Their torture has gone on for a month. Tell me now, you'll tell me what I want to know? Where is the rebel leader?
[pause]
Kiutai: So, you wont speak? I'll loose your tongue, even if that kills you!

Connections
Featured in Cheezy Fantasy Trailers (2006)

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Another glorified muscleman movie expertly exploited by American International into drive-in big bucks.

Ex-Tarzan Gordon Scott is the beefcake in this low-budget but exotic sword-and-sandal potboiler, set, oddly enough, in China. The set pieces are convincingly done for a mini-epic of this sort, and Scott appears to have done some amazing stuntwork in a chariot sequence. Les Baxter's recognizable GOLIATH AND THE BARBARIANS score has been superimposed once again by American International to good effect. One of the better retro-stud peplums for those interested.

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