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The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

Director: Sergio Leone

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From Time Out Film Guide

By the time Leone was thirty, he'd worked on well over 50 muscle-and-sweat sagas, including Helen of Troy, Quo Vadis? and the chariot scene in Ben Hur. The Colossus of Rhodes was his first attempt at direction, and it was a film remarkable enough, at a time when the peplums had just about reached the end of their particular line, to warrant good notices for its crowd and spectacle scenes. (The Colossus itself is a sophisticated torture chamber hidden behind a persuasively artsy exterior.) After the film's success, Leone turned down attempts to channel him into the manufacture of superman heroics in the Maciste mode, and went back to 2nd Unit work on Aldrich's Sodom and Gomorrah.

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  • Loveshack said...
    Posted on Jan 11 2008 21:51 Italian lira, olive oil, pasta, chianti, proscutto, bruscetta, perfectly descibes this overwought concoction of tasty scenes devoted to ancient love and destruction. Director Sergio Leone was a homeosexual who relished handsome muscular men, and he makes it clear in this homosexual orgy of strong fists and hard flesh. Don't be fooled by the chessy acting and bad dubbing, this is a gay man's movie all the way,
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Cast & crew

Director: Sergio Leone

Producer: Michele Scaglione

Cast: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Mabel Karr, Conrado San Martin, Angel Aranda full cast

Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers

Duration: 127 mins


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