Synopsis
Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
Colossus and the Amazon Queen
1960 ‘La regina delle Amazzoni’ Directed by Vittorio Sala
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Vittorio Nino Novarese Ennio De Concini Duccio Tessari Vittorio Sala Augusto Frassinetti Fulvio Fo Giorgio Mordini
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Alternative Title
Colossus and the Amazons
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Theatrical
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Italy
31 May 1961
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France
21 Dec 1962
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Germany
01 Jan 1964
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USA
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France
31 May 1961
- Theatrical
Germany
21 Dec 1962
- Theatrical
Italy
08 Sep 1960
- Theatrical
USA
01 Jan 1964
- Theatrical
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A later film in this series, Ursus in the Land of Fire, was much more serious of a drama fantasy swords and sandals flick. This one is all in on the comedy genre feeling like some kind of spoof of a bad period romance. This kind of thing isn't at all my jam.
EDIT - This does not look anything close to being part of the Ursus collection. there are no like characters, no similar cast or crew and different production companies. The Vengeance of Ursus (1961) it the title that is missing from the Ursus collection. If I knew how to manipulate TMDB I'd fix it, but alas, I never seem to be able to figure out how to change collections on that site.
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There's beefcake and cheesecake aplenty in this lightly comedic adventure of Colossus and the Amazon Queen, as Greek warriors try to find willing brides among the Amazons (only the queen must stay chaste). There's fisticuffs and brawls, stunt-riding, archery, love and romance, a long pagan dance, pirates, and Rod Taylor (he made it to ancient Greece; looks like The Time Machine worked). A modestly fun flick.
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Movie starts off with a jazzy big band lick, then a little Dixieland motif. Apparently this is a sword and sandal comedy staring Rod Taylor. How does Rod go from The Time Machine (1960) to this 1960 low budget B and then back to the top of the Hollywood heap with Hitchcock’s The Birds all in less than three years?
As far as this being a comedy, it’s not funny. “If we are in the hands of women, who wants to escape”. I didn’t laugh once. Apparently Rod said he re-wrote much of the script. You know, I wouldn’t be so quick to admit that.
The plot is mostly about watching curvy women running around, cat fighting, riding horses, dancing, and giggling and jiggling. Oh, and there was something about ‘the sacred girdle’ and ‘sacrifice’. The ‘highlight’ of this movie was perhaps the 1960 jazzy dance choreography in act two. The lowlight was everything else.
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"Ursus im Reich der Amazonen"
Der klassische Peplum wird hier mit einer für diese Zeit fast schon frivole Komödie angereichert. Die Amazonen nehmen auch den größten Teil der Geschichte ein und sind so einwas wie eine Mischung aus tanzenden Hupfdohlen und einem naiven Hühnerhaufen, bei denen das Chaos ausbricht, weil eine Gruppe Männer ihre Gestade durchschreiten und natürlich sogleich die Liebe Einzug hält in den sonst so frigiden Alltag der Damen. Dafür, dass es sich um einen solchen Schwachsinn handelt, ist der Film aber ganz nett und unterhaltsam.
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Another guilty pleasure. The gender swapping is also interesting in such a testosterone-filled genre.
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Sword-and-sandal satire with the always welcome Rod Taylor. Cute and a little campy.
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Sometimes, you start a film and right away know. You know this will be bad. And this one is bad in its own very special way.
How are the production values? It's like the compressed jpeg of movies. How's the comedy? This movie is basically an hour of gags, and no gag works. In fact, that makes everything more confusing. Because for what audience and why was this made? We may never know. But one thing this robot knows is you should not watchie.
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This silly peplum film stars Ed Fury as the muscle man and Rod Taylor as the ladies' man. Together they get shanghaied off to a foreign land and sold into slavery. Imagine their surprise when they find out their new masters are actually mistresses who belong to a queendom of women warriors. What follows is a lot of broad role-reversal comedy. The Amazons are strong, independent women, but they can't live without men's kisses. They already have quite a few male servants on hand, who act like effeminate, henpecking housewives. The dumb humor is not as objectionable as the lack of action. For a sword-and-sandal movie, this one's a lot more sandal than sword, making it hard to stay awake all the way through. The film's one original contribution to the genre is its cocktail jazz soundtrack, a musical style rarely associated with ancient Greece.
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Evem bad without the atrocious dubbing, this was one of the worst sit throughs (confession: I gave up 3/4 through).
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what the hell 🔥🔥🔥
i love this parrot that sounds like luigi actually
why is there a ten minute long dance scene like why the fuck are they dancing
edit - ok so we actually ended up watching this entire movie instead of a few minutes chopped up and honestly it was really fucking funny and the characters were cool
looooove the parrot also the main guy's friend who was so down bad for the sexy warrior lady becoming a malewife was a great plotpoint.
also the animated segments made us laugh out loud every time. brilliant fucking movie.
