Sword-and-Sandal

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2019 / 54min.

Rating7

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Synopsis

The silent cinema had already created colossal movies based on ancient civilizations, but it is in the 1950s when peplums reach their apogee in Hollywood. Then, peplums take root at Cinecittà studios, in Rome, where cheap cinema is produced with bodybuilders as heroes. The genre decays in the late 1960s, but rises again decades later, when a modern classic is released in 2000.

Directors

Actors

Russell Crowe

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Michael Douglas

Ridley Scott

Elizabeth Taylor

Charlton Heston

Lou Ferrigno

Steve Reeves

Oliver Stone

John Milius

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