Tex and the Lords of the Deep (1985)

Original title: Tex e il Signore Degli Abissi

Western/Adventure/Fantasy. Italy. Starring Giuliano Gemma, Isabel Russinova, William Berger, Aldo Sambrell & Frank Braña. Directed by Duccio Tessari.

Hi-Tech Video (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

The Falcon (1983)

Original title: Banovic Strahinja

Fantasy (sort of)/Historical (sort of). Yugoslavia/West Germany. Starring Franco Nero, Dragan Nikolic, Sanja Vejnovic, Rade Serbedzija & Gert Fröbe. Directed by Vatroslav Mimica.

Delta Video (Holland). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Good, but somewhat problematic film based on a medieval serbian folktale. It's very much a child of it's time, riding the wave of serbian nationalism that exploded after Tito's death, and it certainly demonices muslims. We all know how well that ended. It's also very sexist. But Franco Nero is good as always and it's a violent and gritty film with attractive photography and a fairy tale/fantasy touch (even though there's no supernatural stuff going on as far as I remember) that I really enjoyed. Who can say no to that? 3/5

Caesar the Conqueror (1962)

Original title: Giulio Cesare, il Conquistatore delle Gallie

Peplum/Historical. Italy. Starring Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms, Carlo Tamberlani, Carla Calò & Bruno Tocci. Directed by Tanio Boccia.

Athens Video Club (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra (1985)

Original title: Sogni Erotici di Cleopatra

Erotica/Peplum. Italy/France. Starring Marcella Petrelli, Jacques Stany, Rita Silva & Andrea Coppola. Directed by Rino Di Silvestro.

Jezebel (UK). English dubbed. Letterboxed.

I haven't gotten around to watch this yet (I wonder why...) but it's said to contain a lot of inserts from old sword and sandal movies.

A Thousand and One Nights (1968)

Original title: La Esclava del Paraíso

Arabian fantasy. Spain/Italy. Starring Jeff Cooper, Raf Vallone, Perla Cristal, Charly Bravo & Paul Naschy. Directed by José María Elorrieta.

Worldwide Video (Holland). English dubbed. Widescreen.

The Sword of Islam (1962)

Original title: Wa Islamah

Arabian adventure. Italy/Egypt. Starring Rushdy Abaza, Lobna Abdel Aziz, Silvana Pampanini, Folco Lulli & Ahmed Mazhar. Directed by Enrico Bomba & Andrew Marton.

EVC (Holland). Italian language with dutch subtitles. Widescreen.

Obscure, but not very good arabian adventure. Good cinematogrophy, nice sets and reasonably fast-paced but the dull and not very dashing hero (played by an egyptian actor instead of a good old american bodybuilder in "arabian" make-up) ruins most of the fun. The italian dub with dutch subtitles didn't help matters either. An egyptian-italian co-production. 2/5

The Invincible Gladiator (1962)

Original title: Il Gladiatore Invincibile

Peplum. Spain/Italy. Starring Richard Harrison & Luisella Boni. Directed by Alberto De Martino & Antonio Momplet.

Worldwide Video (Holland). English dubbed. Fullscreen.

God knows I need three copies of this bland gladiator flick... 2/5