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The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Actress Thea Fleming can be seen as one of the dancing girls in the big production number in the temple. She is hard to spot in the actual movie but she is very prominent in one of the stills in my collection. Larry Anderson

Glaucus and Pirrus are two friends returning to Greece from the Trojan War. Glaucus, played by Ed Fury, is the burly muscleman, a good natured one-man army. Pirrus, played by Rod Taylor, is the smooth-talking con-artist, more a lover than a fighter.The two friends are drugged by some shifty merchants and sold to the Amazons as slaves. It doesn't take them long to ingratiate themselves to the Amazons and eventually shake up the entire Amazonian nation.I have no idea how anyone could watch this movie and NOT understand that it's a comedy. It's full of slapstick, puns, punch-lines, and one-liners. There's a crazy Egyptian inventor who adds more comic relief. The music is more often than not entirely unlike the standard peplum sound track, with everything from ragtime to jazz to cha-cha. As a matter of fact the ubiquitous harem girl dance is presented as a combination sophisticated jazz performance and a take-off on a Buzby-Berkley number. Since this takes place mostly in Amazonian society the roles of men and women are reversed and you have the men staying at home and raising the kids, cooking, doing laundry and gossiping about each other. In its own way, believe it or not, it's also, a sex comedy of sorts. (No really!)Eventually the men and women realize that they are better off living together as equals, once they team up to fend off a pirate invasion and Glaucus wrestles a bear.Anyone who has a genuine fondness for peplums would really enjoy this movie. It doesn't take itself seriously at all. Instead it pokes a little fun at the genre. It's just good natured, self-effacing fun.

"Ed Fury stars as Glauco, the strongest man in Greece who finds himself the unwilling member of an expedition across the seas. His pal Pirro (Rod Taylor) accepts money from a band of pirates in return for Glauco's undeniable muscle. When they land, they are drugged and captured by a race of Amazons. Only Glauco escapes and falls in love with the fair Antiope. After considerable action and intrigue, the Amazons and Greeks learn to get along," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.Re-titled "Colossus and the Amazon Queen" for English language listeners, this "sword and sandal" epic benefits by not taking itself too seriously. Bulging in all the right places, Mr. Fury is a blond Adonis-like hero. While Fury strikes the correct light-hearted tone, the more accomplished co-starring Mr. Taylor seems uncertain about the sexual preference assigned his character. He acts gay, but goes for breast-popping Daniela Rocca (as Melitta) over Fury, who digs delectable Dorian Gray.***** La regina delle Amazzoni (9/8/60) Vittorio Sala ~ Ed Fury, Rod Taylor, Daniela Rocca, Dorian Gray

This is horrible.I've seen pretty much every muscle man movie made in the 1950's and 1960's and this is at the bottom of the list.First off the dubbing is terrible. The cliche of Japanese monster movies are nothing compared to this. Secondly its suppose to be a comedy. It appears to have been written and acted as one, unfortunately there is nothing funny about it. The problem is that these films run so close to parody as is that its pointless to make fun of them. The only one that ever worked was the original version of My Son The Hero, which was a good movie even without the humor.Lastly the sets, costumes, ect are overly bad. Again these films run the fine line between reality and parody. Its all of a style that took hold and effectively killed off the genre about five years after this was produced where spandex, beehive hairdos and Max Factor make-up made everything look silly.The plot, concerning two muscle men and their encounters with the Amazons is stupid and comes from the low sex comedies that rarely traveled outside of Italy because they were more juvenile than funny.Its over acted and under done.One out of ten. Its just bad.