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Beefcake magazines
Beefcake magazines were magazines published in North America in the 1930s to 1960s that featured photographs of attractive, muscular young men in athletic poses...
who travelled to Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
to take advantage of the popularity of sword and sandal
Sword and sandal
The Peplum , also known as Sword-and-Sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made Historical or Biblical Epics that dominated the Italian film industry from 1957 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by the "Spaghetti Western"...
films. The fad, begun with 1957's Hercules
Hercules (1958 film)
Hercules is a 1958 Italian epic fantasy feature film based upon the Hercules myths and the Quest for the Golden Fleece. The film stars Steve Reeves as the titular hero and Sylva Koscina as his love interest Princess Iole. Hercules was directed by Pietro Francisci and produced by Federico Teti...
, starring Steve Reeves
Steve Reeves
Stephen L. Reeves was an American bodybuilder and actor. At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe.-Childhood:...
, allowed him to star in several before their popularity waned.
Selected filmography
- The Wild Women of Wongo (1958) as Gahbo
- La regina delle AmazonniColossus and the Amazon QueenColossus and the Amazon Queen is a 1960 Italian film directed by Vittorio Sala.The film is also known as Colossus and the Amazons - Production :...
(1960) aka Colossus and the Amazons as Glauco - Ursus (1961) as UrsusUrsus (film character)Ursus is a fictional character featured in a series of Italian sword and sandal films produced in the early 1960s. The character was an archetypical Greco-Roman warrior, similar to the mythical Hercules or Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian...
- Ursus nella valle dei leoni (1961) aka Ursus in the Valley of the Lions as Ursus
- Maciste contro lo sceicco (1962) aka Maciste against the Sheik and Samson against the Sheik as MacisteMacisteMaciste is one of the oldest recurring characters in cinema. He cuts a heroic figure throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from the 1910s to the 1970s, even if most of the movies that featured him are considered to be of poor artistic quality...
- Ursus nella terra di fuoco (1963) aka Ursus in the Land of Fire as Ursus