Ever watch any of those old Sword and Sandal movies from the 1950's and early 1960's?

[bluestateguy]

Movies that are so bad they're funny. Not to mention that they have a knack for putting me to sleep.

Unrealistic, unhistoric, formulaic and sound and dubbing quality that is abominable.

[pinboy3niner]

1. You mean I'm not Spartacus?

Bummer.

[petronius]

2. I can't say I've ever watched one all the way through, but I've started a bunch

of them, just to get my laughter fix...

[trof]

3. Like Steve Reeves in "Hercules"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nisz2sMQ6d8

[pscot]

4. Do biblical epics count?

Samson and Delilah is a personal fav. No dubbing, but unrealistic, unhistoric and formulaic fer sure plus Heddy Lamar.

[frogmarch]

5. Helen of Troy - 1956

I loved the movie when I was 12. I wonder if I would now.

I don't think so. :-\ But Jack Sernas (Paris) is still handsome to me. He looks kind of like Simon Baker in The Mentalist, doesn't he?

EDIT: He wasn’t just another pretty face.

Wiki:

Jacques Sernas (Lithuanian: Jurgis Šernas; sometimes credited as Jack Sernas; born 30 July 1925) is a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.

He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, the son of Jokūbas Šernas, a signatory of the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania, who died when Sernas was a year old. His mother took him to Paris, France, where Sernas received his formal education. During World War II, he joined the French Resistance and was captured and interned at the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp, near Weimar, Germany.

[Aristus]

6. When I was a kid, growing up on Fort Huachuca, Arizona, me and my sibs used to go to the movies

on Saturdays at the old Knox Theater, a cinderblock relic of World War II, painted bright, wedding-mint green. 25 cents would get us each a candy bar, another 25 cents each for a drink, and 75 cents for a tub of popcorn to share.

I remember seeing the Sinbad movies there, the Hercules movies, Jason And The Argonauts, etc.

What fun...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. Like the old Steve Reeves movies?

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I used to watch the old Hercules movies in the theatres and at drive-ins when I was a kid. They weren't the height of movie-making but to me as a kid they were fun and Steve Reeves was a thousand times better, maybe even a million times better as Hercules than Kevin Sorbo. And the Italian women who played wood nymphs and goddesses in them were usually spectacular beauties. This scene where Hercules defeats Antaeus, the son of the Earth Goddess is one I remember.

And Italian actress Rosalba Neri, aka Sara Bey, who plays the princess midway into this clip (who did a number of these films as well as many horror films and thrillers during the early 60s) since I was a kid during that time, is, was, and forever will be the most beautiful woman I've ever seen on the screen, bar none. With a striking regal presence and the eyes of a panther, she was one of the finest actors to come out of this low budget Italian cinema and eventually appeared in films with well-known English speaking actors like Farley Granger, Charlton Heston, Joseph Cotton, Joan Collins, and Klaus Kinski. She received the honor of being invited to join the Actor's Studio in New York, which is usually reserved to significant young talents.

[irisblue]

8. Richard Burton & The Robe, loved that one!

Demetrius and the Gladiators with Victor Mature, however...

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. My favorite:

The Vikings
(netflix has it on 'save" order..but streaming might be available)

You want testosterone, you get testostrone plenty. Never has Kirk Douglas swaggered so much.

One of the largest-grossing films of the 1950s, The Vikings is slam-bang action from start to finish, with Kirk Douglas and Ernest Borgnine as a couple of Norsemen who rape and pillage the British countryside. Tony Curtis is their slave who has eyes for the beautiful British princess Morgana (Curtis's real-life wife, Janet Leigh) -- and the feeling's mutual. Odinnnn!

[Wolf Frankula]

10. I Remember the Nickname of Steve Reeves

"The Weak Hercules". There was a movie that had Hercules, Ursus "A slave escaped from Rome", Samson and Maciste. Anybody remember what it was called?

And there was the Sons of Hercules series of movies.

Wolf

[bikebloke]

11. Hercules Returns

Back in the 90's they re-dubbed a sword and sandals flick. It was actually a movie within a movie. Real funny.