Friday, June 30, 2017

By the Gods!

Gordon Scott, as Hercules, fights the sea monster of Troy in HERCULES & THE PRINCESS OF TROY (1965)

The monster was created by Carlo Rambaldi, who also created E.T.. This was a TV pilot and it didn't succeed in greenlighting a TV series. An oddity in the PEPLUM genre. I'm still glad it was made. Scott was never in better form.

5 comments:

  1. Scott OchiltreeJune 30, 2017 at 9:18 PM

    An enjoyable Peplum with one of the better monsters in the genre.

    Perhaps you might want to consider making a photo collection of what you regard as the best half dozen or so monsters.

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  2. Richard SvenssonJuly 1, 2017 at 3:48 AM

    I really like both the film itself, and Scott's Hercules. A mid-60's TV series would've been very interesting to see. I have some REAL issues with the Kevin Sorbo series.

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  3. hscJuly 2, 2017 at 1:46 AM

    Yipes! That "upskirt" angle on Gordon Scott would have brought "buffalo shot" comments from the MST3K gang.

    Back at the time this was shown on TV, "Castle of Frankenstein" #7 ran a 4-pg. article on the production and Rambaldi's creature, saying it cost $25,000 to make and was dubbed "Max" by the crew.

    Hopefully this link to the article on archive.org works:

    https://archive.org/stream/Castle_of_Frankenstein_007_Vol2_03_1965_c2c-HQS#page/n21/mode/2up

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  4. Richard SvenssonJuly 4, 2017 at 2:44 AM

    hsc: Thanks for sharing!

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  5. PEPLUM TVJuly 4, 2017 at 11:01 AM

    HSC, thanks for the article. I'll post it at the blog

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