Colossus and the Amazon Queen | |
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Original Spanish film poster
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Directed by | Vittorio Sala |
Produced by | Enzo Merolle (producer) |
Written by |
Ennio De Concini (writer) Fulvio Fo (writer) Augusto Frassinetti (writer) Giorgio Mordini (writer) Vittorio Nino Novarese (writer) Vittorio Sala (writer) Duccio Tessari (writer) |
Starring | See below |
Music by | Roberto Nicolosi |
Cinematography | Bitto Albertini |
Edited by | Mario Serandrei |
Release date
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8 September 1960 |
Running time
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84 minutes (USA) 90 minutes (DVD, USA) 98 minutes (Italy) 92 minutes (West Germany) |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Box office | 567,501 admissions (France) |
Colossus and the Amazon Queen (Italian: La regina delle Amazzoni) is a 1960 Italian sword and sandal satirical comedy film directed by Vittorio Sala. The film is also known as Colossus and the Amazons (International English title).
After the Trojan War, Glauco is the strongest man amongst the Greeks. His friend Pirro meets two men who offer him a large sum of money to persuade Glauco to sail towards unexplored shores. Pirro accepts the proposal and convinces Glauco with a trick: he hits him on his head. The ship lands at a strange place where Pirro and the other men aboard are drugged and find themselves in the hands of the Amazons. Only Glauco escapes, saved from the Egyptian inventor Sofo and he falls in love with Antiope. Between loves and duels, conspiracies and ruses, maurauding pirates will bring together Amazons and Greeks.
The film stars two actors imported from America, Rod Taylor and bodybuilder Ed Fury. Taylor claims to have rewritten the script extensively.