The Secret Seven (1963)

Original title: Gli Invincibili Sette

Peplum. Spain/Italy. Starring Tony Russell, Helga Liné, Massimo Serato, Gérard Tichy, Livio Lorenzon & Cris Huerta. Directed by Alberto De Martino.

Delta Video (Holland). English dubbed. Letterboxed (slightly). 

A simple but entertaining boys' adventure with lots of charm. Watch seven men defeat an whole army! 3/5

Gladiators Seven (1962)

Original title: I Sette Gladiatori

Peplum. Italy/Spain. Starring Richard Harrison, Livio Lorenzon, Loredana Nusciak & Gérard Tichy. Directed by Pedro Lazaga.

NS (Taiwan). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Above average gladiator flick, quite fun! 3/5

The Secret Seven (1963)

Original title: Gli Invincibili Sette

Peplum. Spain/Italy. Starring Tony Russell, Helga Liné, Massimo Serato, Gérard Tichy, Livio Lorenzon & Cris Huerta. Directed by Alberto De Martino.

Delta Video (Holland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

This was a nice surprise - what I thought would be yet another copy of the Richard Harrison dud The Invincible Gladiator turned out to be the very rare The Secret Seven - and it's a good one too! A simple but entertaining boys' adventure with lots of charm. Watch seven men defeat an whole army! 3/5

Pontius Pilate (1962)

Original title: Ponzio Pilato

Biblical/Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Jean Marais, Basil Rathbone, John Drew Barrymore,
Jeanne Crain, Massimo Serato, Livio Lorenzon, Gianni Garko & Paul Muller. Directed by Gian Paolo Callegari & Irving Rapper.

Manhattan Video (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Cavalier in Devil's Castle (1959)

Original title: Il Cavaliere del Castello Maledetto

Sword. Italy. Starring Massimo Serato, Luisella Boni, Pierre Cressoy, Livio Lorenzon,
Carlo Tamberlani & Luciano Marin. Directed by Mario Costa.

Video For Pleasure promo (Holland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

Colorful, fast-paced and all around fun swashbuckler made just the way you want 'em. Recommended! 4/5

Tharus Son of Attila (1962)

Original title: Tharus Figlio di Attila

Peplum. Italy. Starring Jerome Courtland, Lisa Gastoni, Mimmo Palmara, Rik Van Nutter, Livio Lorenzon & Riccardo Montalbano. Directed by Roberto Bianchi Montero.

Video Alsen (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Vengeance of Ursus (1961)

Original title: La Vendetta di Ursus

Peplum. Italy. Starring Samson Burke, Wandisa Guida, Livio Lorenzon & Nerio Bernardi. Directed by Luigi Capuano.

VTC (Sweden). English dubbed. Widescreen. Very good print.

This time Samson Burke plays the Ursus part instead of the usual suspect Ed Fury and a fine job he does. A very entertaining peplum with a pompeus hero with super strenght, a kid hero sidekick, a cunning and evil king, a princess in distress, treason, traps etc. (i.e the same old stuff we never tire of - it's not orginality we're after, right?). Was there a "funny" midget too? I can't remember. Anyway, real fun stuff, check it out if you get the chance. 4/5

Queen of the Pirates (1961)

Original title: La Venere dei Pirati

Pirate yarn. Italy/West Germany. Starring Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Scilla Gabel, Livio Lorenzon, Paul Muller, Moira Orfei & Andrea Aureli. Directed by Mario Costa.

Original Video (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Gianna Maria Canale is great as the masked female pirate in this fun, colorful pirate swashbuckler. Another Costa winner. I don't know if it's healthy for an adult male to be so exited over this type of pulp adventure film for kids, but I don't care! 4/5

Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963)

Original title: Zorro e i Tre Moschettieri

Zorro/Sword. Italy. Starring Gordon Scott, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Livio Lorenzon & Maria Grazia Spina. Directed by Luigi Capuano.

Wahlters Video/Cinehollywood (Sweden). English dubbed. Letterboxed (slightly).

I know I have seen this one, but I can't remember a thing about it... and that's probably not a good sign. 2/5

Zorro at the Spanish Court (1962)

Original title: Zorro alla Corte di Spagna

Zorro adventure. Italy. Starring George Ardisson, Carla Calò, Tullio Altamura, Livio Lorenzon, Alberto Lupo,Carlo Tamberlani & Maria Grazia Spina. Directed by Luigi Capuano.

Wahlters Video/Cinehollywood (Sweden). Letterboxed. Very dark print.

Naive Zorro adventure. It was a long time since I saw it but I remember not thinking too much of it. 2/5

Gladiators Seven (1962)

Original title: I Sette Gladiatori

Peplum. Italy/Spain. Starring Richard Harrison, Livio Lorenzon, Loredana Nusciak & Gérard Tichy. Directed by Pedro Lazaga.

DVD: VCI (USA). English dubbed. Widescreen. Reasonable quality.

Above average gladiator flick, quite fun! 3/5

The Kings of France (1959)

Original title: I Reali di Francia

Sword. Italy. Starring Rik Battaglia, Chelo Alonso, Gérard Landry, Livio Lorenzon, Liana Orfei & Carlo Tamberlani. Directed by Mario Costa.

EKO (UK). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

I had a really hard time sitting through this film, due to the completely worthless dubbing. Two or three bored dubbers do all the voices with a complete lack of feeling - and you could still hear the italian dub in the background! My grade represents this crap version of the film. 2/5

Gladiators Seven (1962)

Original title: I Sette Gladiatori

Peplum. Italy/Spain. Starring Richard Harrison, Livio Lorenzon, Loredana Nusciak & Gérard Tichy. Directed by Pedro Lazaga.

Worldwide Video (Holland). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Above average gladiator flick, quite fun! 3/5

Hercules Against Rome (1964)

Original title: Ercole contro Roma

Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Alan Steel, Wandisa Guida, Andrea Aureli, Daniele Vargas, Livio Lorenzon & Carlo Tamberlani. Directed by Piero Pierotti.

Video Screen (Holland). Italian with dutch subtitles. Fullscreen.