Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaThe evil Queen Tenefi, who's usurped the throne of Memphis, demands that a steady supply of young women be sacrificed to the God of Fire inside the Mountain of Thunder. Maciste intervenes an... Leggi tuttoThe evil Queen Tenefi, who's usurped the throne of Memphis, demands that a steady supply of young women be sacrificed to the God of Fire inside the Mountain of Thunder. Maciste intervenes and saves from this sacrifice a village's women including the beautiful Antea. Maciste then ... Leggi tuttoThe evil Queen Tenefi, who's usurped the throne of Memphis, demands that a steady supply of young women be sacrificed to the God of Fire inside the Mountain of Thunder. Maciste intervenes and saves from this sacrifice a village's women including the beautiful Antea. Maciste then becomes involved in an effort to restore to the throne of Memphis its rightful ruler, Prin... Leggi tutto
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Queen Tenefi
- (as Liuba Bodina)
- Rais
- (as Lucy Randi)
- Tabor
- (as Alfredo Salvadori)
Recensioni in evidenza
In fact when her soldiers capture Kirk Morris as Maciste she doesn't want him killed, but simply to serve as her slave in all kinds of capacities. One look at him and who could blame the lady, but even her allies think she's behaving badly.
When Maciste has to confront the volcano to save his true blue girl friend he has to deal with some creatures that look like they escaped from Dr. Moreau's island. That's the highlight of the film because it sure isn't an original peplum plot.
Triumph of Maciste features an evil Queen who has a favourite pastime of sacrificing young virgins to a fire deity and there's the usual formula of Maciste played by Kirk Morris saving the day. I don't mind formula - actually I prefer it - as long there's something that makes the plot engaging, energy, twist in the plot, good acting,and action, etc. However this film is slow moving and tedious. It's just a tick box exercise of events without much verve or engagement. Got through it though but it didn't grab me much.
"Triumph" benefits from the presence of 23-year-old Kirk Morris who has all the required musculature but who possesses a youthful, almost boyish quality which sets him apart from the likes of Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Dan Vadis, etc. Unfortunately, "Triumph" doesn't find a way to effectively exploit this quality in Morris -- who's admittedly no great actor -- and it badly miscasts the part of the "good girl." She's played by Cathia Caro who's simply too old, too dark, and too heavy to serve as a proper counterpoint to the wicked queen. As the queen, Liuba Bodina is no more than adequate.
In terms of the plot, "Triumph" stumbles when it sets up a revolt which will dethrone the queen in favor of the rightful ruler, Prince Iram, but then this revolt is skimmed over in favor of a climax which has the hero, (called "Maciste"), entering a volcano in order to rescue his about-to-be-sacrificed love interest. This climax mixes in footage from Morris's "The Witch's Curse," including a scene in which he wrestles a lion and a scene in which he pushes through a wall of flame, which explains why he mysteriously changes back and forth from a light-colored peplum and a dark-colored loincloth.
Alas, available prints of "Triumph" suffer from severely washed-out color, but Kirk Morris's bare chest still shines through and by the end of the movie, its sweat-gleaming skin and well-formed nipples -- constantly on display -- will almost seem like old friends.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizFilm debut of Kirk Morris.
- Citazioni
Queen Tenefi: Simply putting a warrior like Maciste to death is by no means the proper solution. He will have to suffer first.
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- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 28 minuti
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 2.35 : 1