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Though filmed in 1963, Pietro Francisci’s final contribution to the peplum (sword and sandal) genre — a little ditty called Hercules, Samson and Ulysses (aka Ercole sfida Sansone) — didn’t make it to screens in the U.S. until 1965, by which time the macho muscleman movie craze had all but ended all over the globe. I suppose it’s not such a bad thing, though, since this offering probably seemed just as routine to audiences then as it does to me today. Of course, that’s not a bad thing, as we only watch these movies for one reason alone: prime Italian beef and cheese.
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