Musings!

Alan Steel in a new and yet old setting in SAMSON AND THE LOST TREASURE OF THE INCAS (1964)

One of those PEPLUM Westerns, which I've described in the second issue of BY THE GODS!, which mostly occurred when Italian film studios switched the setting for movies set in Antiquity to Westerns after the success of Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns. There aren't that many of them...less than ten but they exist.The movie is exactly like a PEPLUM movie, including colourful costumes, settings, etc. The one thing lacking in this movie are Feats of Strength but aside from that, it's obviously a PEPLUM movie. I like it but the action is at times a bit slow. Aside from a huge brawl in a tavern, it's missing that PEPLUM Rock 'Em Sock 'Em style. Alan Steel is in top form. In the previous scene, he's fully clothed but when the people end up in this ceremonial cavern, Steel is shirtless. No explanation as to why. Well, to entertain, of course. In one of the funniest aspects of this movie, they placed plastic cacti here and there in the usual Italian exterior locations seen in other PEPLUM movies.