Ercole contro Roma

For its time, this must have been a slightly bigger production for the genre (péplum), with hundreds of extras involved in battle scenes, and perhaps a higher budget than the usual moneys assigned to these projects. Unfortunately it is partially betrayed by the little charm of Sergio Ciani (aka Alan Steel) as Hercules --although he is more than physically adequate for the title role--, and almost ruined by a romantic subplot involving a young girl (Erika, played by Simonetta Simeoni) infatuated with the hero Otherwise, it is the usual fun found in any of these Italian epic fluffs, this time with a score by maestro Angelo Francesco Lavagnino.