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    Sword-and-sandal (redirect from Peplum film)
    term "peplum" (a Latin word referring to the ancient Greek garment peplos), was introduced by French film critics in the 1960s. The terms "peplum" and...
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  • Sword-and-sandal films, a derogatory reference to the genre of Greco-Roman Era costume/adventure films mostly produced in Italy, also known as "peplum". Péplum (novel)...
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    was a rise in peplum films after the release of Hercules (1958). Italy started moving beyond peplums making Westerns and horror films which were less...
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  • fuoco) is a 1983 Italian film directed by Franco Prosperi, starring Sabrina Siani and Pietro Torrisi. The film is among the peplums of the 1980s to feature...
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  • Messalina (Italian: Messalina Venere imperatrice) is a 1960 Italian peplum film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. After the death of the Emperor Caligula...
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    in a series of biblical adventure films (peplums) in the early 1960s. He possessed amazing strength, and the films were similar in theme to their Hercules...
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  • The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (category Template film date with 1 release date)
    is an Italian peplum film directed by Bruno Mattei. The box office success of Conan the Barbarian sparked a mini-revival of peplum film productions between...
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    historical drama. Samurai films like Zatoichi and Lone Wolf and Cub series also fall under historical drama umbrella. Peplum films also known as sword-and-sandal...
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  • La guerra di Troia) is a 1961 Italian peplum film set in the tenth and final year of the Trojan War. The film focuses primarily on the exploits of the...
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  • The Fall of Rome (Italian: Il crollo di Roma) is a 1963 Italian peplum film written and directed by Anthony Dawson. Immediately following the death of...
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  • Thieves (2023) Mythica: Stormbound (2024) List of high fantasy films and TV series Peplum (film genre) McCullough V, Joseph A. (20 March 2022). "The Demarcation...
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    January 1925. Retrieved 14 August 2021. The Peplum in the days of silent cinema, 1, ch. of "Cinema Peplum" Dominic Cammarota, "Future essays" n. 14, and...
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  • In the film industry, unsimulated sex is the presentation of sex scenes in which actors genuinely perform the depicted sex acts, rather than simulating...
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    Noir film, Peplum or Sword-and-sandal film, Sexy, Spy film, Thriller film, War film, Western film, and related subgenres. The DBCult Film Institute was...
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  • Ursus (also known as Mighty Ursus) is a 1961 Italian peplum film directed by Carlo Campogalliani. It was originally theatrically released in the US on...
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  • peplum film directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Steve Reeves and Gianna Maria Canale. It is an unofficial sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film Spartacus...
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  • Colossus and the Headhunters (category Peplum films)
    di teste, lit. 'Maciste against the head-hunters'), is a 1963 Italian peplum film written and directed by Guido Malatesta, and starring Kirk Morris. The...
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  • Retrieved 10 September 2020.[dead link] "Antike im Film | Epics | Monumentalfilme | Sandalone | Bibelfilme | peplum | Sandalenfilm | Sword and Sandal : Filme"...
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  • sword and sorcery film directed by John Milius and written by Milius and Oliver Stone. Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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  • historical drama films Greek mythology in popular culture Peplum (film genre) Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore...
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  • create an "organic, gourd or pumpkin kind of effect", which includes the peplum at the waist, the flared, skirt-like fabric blossoming from below his doublet...
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  • genres — peplum and science fiction. It features two sword-and-sandal veterans — Brad Harris and Gianni Garko — cast in supporting roles. Film historian...
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    mid-1960s. As the péplum genre faded, Scott starred in Spaghetti Westerns and Eurospy films. His final film appearance was in The Tramplers (filmed in 1966; released...
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  • vampiro) is a 1961 Italian peplum film directed by Sergio Corbucci and Giacomo Gentilomo. Set in the ancient world, this film follows a powerful muscular...
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    Race (2002 film) 2002: Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra 2001: Le Petit Poucet 1998: Trafic d'influence 1998: Serial Lover 2019: Peplum (mini-série)...
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  • Rome Against Rome (Italian: Roma contro Roma) is a 1964 Italian peplum film directed by Giuseppe Vari. John Drew Barrymore as Aderbad Susy Andersen as...
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  • historical drama film about the rise and fall of controversial Roman emperor Caligula. The film stars Malcolm McDowell (who also co-wrote the film) in the title...
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  • historical inaccuracies and even called "pure peplum propaganda." List of historical films List of films set in ancient Rome "Conqueror of Corinth (1961)"...
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  • (Ben Hur, The Magnificent Gladiator, Quo Vadis). The only other films made during the peplum era to use a Hellenistic setting are Hannibal (1959), Revak the...
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