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HERCULES AGAINST ROME (1964) - PECS & CHAINS: GLADIATOR MOVIE POSTERS (Part 9/10)

A standard Peplum movie, Ercole contro Roma stars the lovely Wandisa Guida and its superb Italian poster is painted once again by Renato Casaro

Director: Piero Pierotti Actors: Sergio Ciani, Wandisa Guida

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Hercules (1983)

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OH GOD DAMN YOU GOT ME IN LOVE AGAIN

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Born on this day 96 years ago: that wondrous physical specimen, 1950s beefcake Adonis Ed Fury (né Rupert Edmund Holovchik, 6 June 1928 - 24 February 2023). Fury also occasionally acted (his filmography includes Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) and Wild Women of Wongo (1958)). He’s also one of the bevy of semi-nude muscle men who cavort in tiny flesh-coloured shorts with Jane Russell in her “Ain��t There Anyone Here for Love?” musical number in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). Later, he triumphantly transitioned to Italian “sword and sandal” or “peplum” gladiator films like Colossus and The Amazon Queen (1960) and Ursus (1961). Fury also, of course, posed “undraped” for male pinup photographers like Bruce of LA and Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild.

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Hewoo

I think I should be more active here.. It's been a while.. A very while.. Oh! And I'm into Gladiator those days and since we have literally NO FANART(speaking about the 2k version) so there it is:

I don't have a consistent art style and it bugs me.. But anyway I'll be more active now hehe

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Cleopatra by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Via Flickr: Vintage Czechoslovakian postcard. PUTF. Still from the American epic Cleopatra (Joseph Mankiewicz, 1963), starring Elizabeth Taylor as the Egyptian queen, here entering Rome with a grandiose style. British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) began as a child star. As an adult she came to be known for her acting talent and beauty. She had a much publicised private life, including eight marriages and several near death experiences. Taylor was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age.

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PEPLUM EM CINCO PRODUÇÕES DO GÊNERO DISPONÍVEL NO YOUTUBE E STREAMING

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Two matte paintings by Joseph Nathanson for the 1962 peplum film, “Caesar the Conqueror”

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On November 30, 1962, Atlas debuted in Portugal.

Here's a new portrait of Michael Forest to mark the occasion!

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HERCULES PRISONER OF EVIL (1964) - PECS AND CHAINS: GLADIATOR MOVIE POSTERS (Part 4/10)

Between 1961 and 1964, British born Reg Park was the main Peplum movie actor appearing in 5 Italian movies. A “revenge” on Steve Reeves (as he was the runner up to the 1950 Mr Universe competition) whom he replaced as the leading actor of the genre including in this 1964 camp fest directed by Antonio Margheriti.

Above is the sexy original German movie poster

Director: Antonio Margheriti Actors: Reg Park, Ettore Manni, Mireille Granelli 

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The Arena (1974)

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In all the retellings of the legend of Semele I had as a kid (I need to check the original texts though, but I'm here referring to how popular culture evoked it), it was insisted that what killed her was to ask to see Zeus "in his full glory, holding all of his attributes - aka, wielding the divine thunder/lightning". And all insisted that it wasn't seeing Zeus that killed her, but the lightning Zeus held/emited/was surrounded with, that burned her to a crisp.

The idea of the mere "true form" of a god killing someone wasn't introduced in my youthful mind until I read Heroes of Olympus and there was the whole thing about Hera's true form being a supernova. And I haven't seen the "true form of a god kills" used in any other Greek mythology text until then, so... Yeah, again, in terms of popular culture and mainstream ideas (again, I am not talking about Antiquity), it is another case of "blame it on Riordan/on the PJO popularity".

... Though to be fair there was one ambiguous case in "The God Beneath the Sea", where Demeter turning Abas into a lizard was connected with her discarding her human disguise and revealing her divine self, as if her mere divine energy and light twisted Abas' body into a new shape - there was a nice play on perspective and dimensions in this segment if I recall well, because Demeter was growing to a super-tall size while Abas was shrinking and it resulted in Abas' point of view getting quite weird.

Everyone: gods can't reveal their real forms in the presence of mortals because it would literally kill them!

Demeter in Homeric Hymn 2: When she had so said, the goddess changed her stature and her looks, thrusting old age away from her: beauty spread round about her and a lovely fragrance was wafted from her sweet-smelling robes, and from the divine body of the goddess a light shone afar, while golden tresses spread down over her shoulders, so that the strong house was filled with brightness as with lightning. And so she went out from the palace.

Apollo in Homeric Hymn 3: Then, like a star at noonday, the lord, far-working Apollo, leaped from the ship: flashes of fire flew from him thick and their brightness reached to heaven. He entered into his shrine between priceless tripods, and there made a flame to flare up bright, showing forth the splendor of his shafts, so that their radiance filled all Crisa, and the wives and well-girded daughters of the Crisaeans raised a cry at that outburst of Phoebus; for he cast great fear upon them all. From his shrine he sprang forth again, swift as a thought, to speed again to the ship, bearing the form of a man, brisk and sturdy, in the prime of his youth, while his broad shoulders were covered with his hair: and he spoke to the Cretans, uttering winged words: ... So speaking, he put courage in their hearts, and the master of the Cretans answered him and said: “Stranger —though you are nothing like mortal men in shape or stature, but are as the deathless gods ...”

Aphrodite in Homeric Hymn 5: But at the time when the herdsmen drive their oxen and hardy sheep back to the fold from the flowery pastures, even then Aphrodite poured soft sleep upon Anchises, but herself put on her rich raiment. And when the bright goddess had fully clothed herself, she stood by the couch, and her head reached to the well-hewn roof-tree; from her cheeks shone unearthly beauty such as belongs to rich-crowned Cytherea. Then she aroused him from sleep and opened her mouth and said: “Up, son of Dardanus! —why sleep you so heavily? —and consider whether I look as I did when first you saw me with your eyes.”

Zeus in Moschos' Europa: And verily Crete appeared, and Zeus took his own shape again, and he loosed her [Europa's] girdle, and the Hours arrayed their bridal bed.

Just saying, it's a very bizarre excuse for why a god would supposedly need to have sex with a mortal in the shape of an animal or their spouse or anyone or anything else, because evidently it is perfectly possible for them to reveal their identity to mortals without killing them, or at least there is no consistent rule stating that they can't.

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“Not surprisingly, Mickey played Hercules, well-oiled and wearing what seemed to be a very short skating skirt adorned with leather suspenders. Unlike any other male in the movie, Mickey is tanned and greased and so muscle-bound that he can’t walk with his arms at his sides but looks like some kind of great, jerky mechanical bear. The plot, very sketchily, has Mickey’s first wife murdered. He sets out to seek revenge, meets a black-haired tribal queen and falls in love in nine minutes. The black-haired queen is played by Jayne, wearing a black wig and a padded bra. It was some kind of gravitational miracle that she didn’t fall over with all that frontage on her. At any rate, she and Hercules have to overcome a lot of obstacles to their love, including the murderous impulses of the red-haired Amazon queen who captures Hercules. Jayne plays the Amazon queen in a different wig but the same bra. The movie is dubbed in a variety of accents so that Mickey delivers Shakespearean English, Jayne West Coast American and the others sound indigenous to locales between Los Angeles and London … Jayne’s dual roles were an object lesson in male fantasy. She gets to play the demanding, emasculating woman men fear and the demure, passive woman they want.”

/ From Jayne Mansfield and the American Fifties by Martha Saxton, 1975 /

Released in Italian cinemas 63 years ago today (19 August 1960): “sword-and-sandals” peplum film The Loves of Hercules (aka Hercules vs the Hydra) starring fabulous fame-crazed husband and wife duo Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield, made in Cinemascope at the height of the “Hollywood on the Tiber” era. In the UK at least, this movie is seemingly impossible to see. Over the years some scratchy, faded versions have surfaced on YouTube – but always dubbed exclusively in Italian! Where oh where is the 4K restoration English language director’s cut Blu-ray?

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He is majestic ✨✨

Did I captured him well? If yes I will have a bunch to Draw 😂

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