When the PEPLUM genre died out from its ashes came the Spaghetti Western genre and the greatest SW is no doubt Sergio Leone's THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY. What's cool about this film, which I love, is spotting all the PEPLUM stars in it. There are more of them than listed here but all the following actors made PEPLUM films way before making SW or this classic Leone epic.
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Antonio Casas, who was also in a couple of PEPLUM flicks including REVOLT OF THE SLAVES
Aldo Giuffre who played Seren, King of the Philistines in HERCULES, SAMSON AND ULYSSES
Benito Stefanelli, profiled here
at the blog, was also seen in REVENGE OF THE GLADIATORS
Chelo Alonso had a role at the very beginning of THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY. She was a major star of the PEPLUM genre, including MORGAN THE PIRATE.
Claudio Scarchilli, profiled here
at the blog, was a regular PEPLUM actor and was a bad gladiator in COLOSSUS OF THE ARENA.
Livio Lorenzon appeared briefly in the Leone epic; Lorenzon was one of the busiest PEPLUM actors of the bunch and can be seen in TERROR OF THE RED MASK.
Toni Dimitri can be seen during the hanging scene in TGTBATU; prior to that he was seen in a couple of PEPLUM films including ALI BABA AND THE SEVEN SARACENS.
There were many actors from the genre that went on make SW films. Since I have a large collection of SW films I can attest to that. Euro Spy films were also full of PEP Stars. Some cases they use a different names Gemma was famous for that. War movies Italian Style have tons of PEP Stars in them. BATTLE OF EL ALAMEIN and COMMANDOS have a very large cast of PEP Stars in them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info. I'll check those titles out.
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