La terreur des barbares

Titre original : Il terrore dei barbari

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Chelo Alonso and Steve Reeves in La terreur des barbares (1959)

Adventure

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueWhen barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

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5,6/10

367

MA NOTE

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Anecdotes
The production had to shut down when the money ran out. American-International Pictures' executives James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff were shown rushes from the film and agreed to buy the US distribution rights, which gave the film's producers the money to continue production. With their own Steve Reeves movie (retitled La terreur des barbares (1959)) in theaters only five months after the box-office sensation Les travaux d'Hercule (1958), American-International had one of its biggest hits up to that time.

Citations
Londo: You're very strong, but you don't look like a woodcutter.
Emiliano: Appearances are deceiving.

Versions alternatives
For its release in the United States under the title "Goliath and the Barbarians," American International trimmed almost 15 minutes of film, replaced the English language dubbing with their own English dubbed track and replaced the score with one recorded by Les Baxter. It became American International's biggest hit up to that time. It set a precedent for American International's handling of later foreign negative pick-ups.

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This is the ripest of the Steve Reeves muscleman movies.

This is probably the guiltiest pleasure of any of the late 50's, early 60's European peplum movies. Released in the US by American International Pictures (under the supervision of Arkoff and Nicholson), this picture was an amazing box-office coup for that studio and one of the most memorable exploitation pics of it's day. Though this film is less famous than his star-making vehicle, HERCULES, Mr. Universe Steve Reeves is on display to much better advantage here, and thanks to the extraordinary participation of the fabulous Cuban beauty, Chelo Alonso, more memorable, too. These two superstructures were, and probably still are, the stuff of adolescent daydreams and adult fetishes. This sword-and-sandal flick is pure sexist fun and exemplifies an era in films when marketing a movie was practically an art form in itself, instead of the crass, big-business system it is today. Hopefully someone can bring this potboiler to DVD in a widescreen version that does it some justice. Aside from Steve and Chelo, there's a memorable music score by AIP's lead music director, Les Baxter, which was used to perk up a lot of the muscleman epics of the time. I think the title card for this picture, paraphrased, says it all: "569 A.D. A TIME, WHEN, IF YOU DIDN'T FIGHT OR LOVE, LIFE WAS A VERY SHORT AND DULL AFFAIR." Stop the presses! You gotta love that! Enjoy.