Goliath and the Rebel Slave

Goliath and the Rebel Slave (Italian: Goliath e la schiava ribelle), also known as The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules, is a 1963 Eastmancolor adventure peplum film directed by Mario Caiano.[3][4]

Goliath and the Rebel Slave
Directed by	Mario Caiano[1]
Produced by	Giorgio Agliani[1]
Screenplay by	Gian Paolo Callegari Albert Valentin[1]
Starring	Gordon Scott Ombretta Colli Gloria Milland
Music by	Carlo Franci[2]
Cinematography	Pier Ludovico Pavoni[1][2]
Edited by	Nella Nannuzzi[2]
Production companies	Compagnia Internazionale Realizzazioni Artistiche Cinematograiche Films Internazionali Artistici Les Productiones Georges de Beauregard[2]
Release date	5 September 1963 (1963-09-05) (Italy)
Running time	105 minutes[2]
Country	Italy France[2]

Plot

Cast

• Gordon Scott as Goliath
• Ombretta Colli as Princess Cori
• Massimo Serato as Marcius
• Mimmo Palmara as Artafernes
• Giuseppe Fortis as Barbuk
• Gabriele Antonini as Alexander the Great
• Serge Nubret as Milan
• Gloria Milland as Zoé
• Mirko Ellis

Release

Goliath and the Rebel Slave was released in Italy on September 5, 1963.[2] It was released in the United States in 1964 as The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules.[2]

Reception

A contemporary review in the Monthly Film Bulletin referred to the film as a "sluggish, run-of-the-mill affair which is weighed down by arguments, disputes and torturous double-crossings."[5] The review concluded that "the script is naive, the colour print poor, and the whole thing takes an age to disentangle itself"[5]

Footnotes

1. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 183.
2. Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 184.
3. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
4. Michele Giordano. Giganti buoni. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877421835.
5. "Goliath E La Schiava Ribelle (Arrow of the Avenger), Italy/France, 1963". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 33 no. 390. British Film Institute. July 1966. p. 109.

References

• Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN 1476662916.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Goliath and the Rebel Slave on IMDb
• Goliath and the Rebel Slave at AllMovie
• Goliath and the Rebel Slave at the TCM Movie Database