Billy, a little boy who lives next door to the Stooges, decides to play a trick on them. When Billy gets a toy TV camera as a gift from his parents, he interrupts the show the Stooges are watching and pretends to be an invading Martian. Billy tells the Stooges to deliver a truckload of candy to his house or he will destroy the earth.
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane. Starring Enrico Maria Salerno, Terry Jenkins, and María Martín. Revenge is sweet, especially in a spaghetti western.
Also known as One Silver Dollar. Giuliano Gemma plays a confederate soldier who returns from the war to fight one at home. Unbeknownst to him, his brother has become the infamous gunfighter "Black Jack" to defeat the local bullies. Gemma agrees to ambush and kill Black Jack, only to discover too late who the outlaw really is. With vengeance in his heart he turns on his employers, who then shoot him. Things get worse, or bad, or ugly, from there. Black Jack was one of the Grey Riders, I think. Starring Giuliano Gemma, Evelyn Stewart, Pierre Cressoy. Go ahead, microwave some spaghetti.
Ended in prison for killing three men in self-defense while playing hopscotch, Ringo is freed to infiltrate the bandits led by Sancho who, after a bank robbery, barricaded themselves on Major Clyde's farm. Ringo, called Angel Face, asks for thirty percent of the loot for his business, then, when he arrives at the farm, he reveals everything in Sancho obtaining forty percent of the loot to bring him and his cronies to safety. Starring Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho, and Lorella De Luca. I think that Ringo and Django were cousins, sort of.
A newlywed sheriff tries to stop a shambling monster that has emerged from a spaceship to eat the citizens of an American town. A creature that looks like a cross between a Chinese dragon puppet and the Pope sucks up people into its maw. The sheriff, his wife, and a "handsome" scientist battle it to the end, with a sub plot about the evils of bachelorhood. Starring Vic Savage, Shannon O'Neil, and William Thourlby. One of those so-bad-its-good movies of the early 60s. Ed Wood, where have you gone?
Hercules fights to free the people of Babylon from an evil sorceress. This is because the Babylonians capture Asparia the queen of the Hellenes, and, unaware of her true identity, take her to Babylon as a common slave. She sends word of her capture to Hercules and soon a false rumor that the hero is on his way spreads through the city. Meanwhile, King Phaleg of Assyria convinces Hercules to help him fight the Babylonians, but the two-faced king is conspiring to get his hands on the beautiful Asparia. Starring Peter Lupus, Helga Liné, and Mario Petri.
Maxus, the nomadic son of Hercules, rescues Idar, a prince of a sun-worshipping tribe, from a lake monster. When a band of cave-dwelling moon-worshippers descends on the Sun People and kidnaps their women for human sacrifice, Maxus leads a counterattack. He rescues the captured women but is abducted himself, before escaping with beautiful moon-worshipper Moah. But ahead are more battles with beasts and the Moon People, now allied with an even nastier tribe. Starring Reg Lewis, Luciano Marin and Margaret Lee. Maybe this was an early use of solar panels?
Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own. Starring Gordon Mitchell, Chelo Alonso, and Vira Silenti. We should look for cyclopean walls when we see the land of the Cyclops. Ray Harryhausen look out!
King Androcles of Thebes (Ettore Manni) commands a ship searching for a threat to Greece predicted by oracles. Hercules (Reg Park) is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young girl, Ismene (Laura Altan), from a shape-shifting creature. She takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, the evil Queen Antinea (Fay Spain), has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest. Also known as Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis. Reg Park is great as a British body-builder Hercules. Where is Rod Stewart when you need him?
The gladiator Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer, a warrior named Resius, and then must rescue Lidia, Resius’ beautiful niece, from death on the cross. Stars: Roger Browne, Susan Paget, and Dan Vadis. And you thought the NFL was violent! At least they had beautiful women to fight over.
Tired of the sexual escapades on earth by his daughter Venus, Jupiter, the god of Lightning, decides he shall marry her soon to one of the candidates: Maciste, a mortal working in Vulcano's cave, and Mars, the god of War. But Mars abducts Venus, allied with Pluto and Eris, and works out a plan involving a bamboo tower high enough for the soldiers of the Thracian King to attack Jupiter in the high Olympus. The gods' contend will be resolved in human fashion on Earth, where even gods are mortal. Starring Bella Cortez, Iloosh Khoshabe listed as Mitchell Gordon, Liliana Zagra, and Roger Browne. Mount Olympus, we have a problem!
George, the son of the sorceress Sybil, has been watching the beautiful Princess Helene from afar and is very much in love with her. When she is kidnapped by the evil wizard Lodac, the king her father announces that she will be given in marriage to whoever rescues her. The first to volunteer is Sir Branton who expects to undertake the task alone. George, over his mother's objections, also decides to save her and is accompanied by six ancient knights. The journey is perilous with Lodac and his knights facing a series of challenges. Many in the group do not survive but George must eventually face Lodac's greatest challenge which is the great dragon. A great early 60s fantasy movie that was a big hit in Europe. Starring Basil Rathbone, Estelle Winwood, and Gary Lockwood. One of Basil Rathbone’s last movies. The search for the Holy Grail continues!
A great warrior is protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, and winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arena. Starring Gordon Scott, Wandisa Guida, and Roberto Risso. A pretty good gladiator movie with scantily clad women and gladiator combat. At one point the Gladiator and the women are crucified on X-crosses, similar to a scene in BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES. Is this movie the inspiration for the mega-hit movie: GLADIATOR?
A young Arch Hall, Jr. is given a shot at the big time by the unscrupulous owner of a small record company played by Arch Hall, Sr. (aka William Watters). Starring Arch Hall Jr., Nancy Czar, and Marie Denn. While seemingly an Elvis-type movie that is somewhat wholesome, a major theme is the record industry of the time, which was a major rip-off of artists. Many artists of the 60s signed terrible record contracts including the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison, Tommy James and many others.
Female prisoners are shipped to the notorious Devil's Island penal colony off the coast of South America. They are indoctrinated into the prison life from abusive guards but then a new prison governor arrives with planned reforms. Can Devil’s Island be reformed? Starring Guy Madison, Michèle Mercier, and Federica Ranchi. As you would expect, lots of ripped bodices, torn skirts and sword fighting. Those French know how to treat women, aye?
Classic comedic western, Captain Oren Hayes of the Texas Rangers takes a break to visit his daughter in a neighboring town. When he arrives, he finds his daughter Hannah's husband Jeff is running for Mayor against a corrupt town boss, Nard Lundy. Lundy has no intention of allowing the free election of the honest Jeff Rose, so he has his henchmen beat them up. Hayes then calls for the help of some his old buddies in the Rangers. Upon arriving in town, they realize quickly that age has caught up with them and they must rely on their sheer wits to outsmart and defeat Lundy. Starring Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Ricky Nelson, Jack Elam, Gypsy Rose Lee, Fred Astaire, Lana Wood and Andy Devine. One of the great comedy westerns with a great cast!
A rebellious punk of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and trouble making. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few police officers, and finally sees his own life end in tragedy. Starring Jack Nicholson, Georgianna Carterm and Robert Bean. It’s a wild ride in a hot rod with Jack Nicholson in his first movie! Before Easy Rider there was The Wild Ride!
In one of his earliest movies, Roger Moore stars as Romulus in the classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from the nearby Celtic-Greek kingdom of Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men are not so happy with this large-scale kidnapping and attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back. Starring Roger Moore, Mylène Demongeot, and Giorgia Moll. Ultimately the Sabines and their women became part of the new Roman Empire and the rest is history! Known historically as the Rape of the Sabines.
Maciste, the son of Hercules, arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city's queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can't follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the "world above." Starring Mark Forest, Moira Orfei, and Paul Wynter. It is time for Hercules to enter the underground world! Mole Men—Yikes!
Maciste, the son of Hercules, also known as Colossus, rescues Ario, the son of King Sandor, and his people from their land in a volcanic island that blows-up and they sail to the Land and Urias. They are captured by the Urias but when the Queen Amoha meets Maciste, she tells that the traitor Kermis has joined the tribe of Head Hunters and slaughtered her people, but the warrior Taro has saved them from the annihilation; however, her father King Olibauna was missing in action. She asks Maciste to help her against the Head Hunters, but Maciste tells that he is protecting the tribe of Ario. When the Urias are attacked by the Head Hunters, Maciste decides to help Queen Amoha. Starring Kirk Morris, Laura Brown, and Demeter Bitenc. It is always wise to stay clear of headhunters, unless you are the son of Hercules.
