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Triumph of Maciste (1961)

October. 02,1961
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The evil Queen Tenefi demands that a steady supply of young women be sacrificed to the God of Fire. 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, Prince Iram.

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CheerupSilver
1961/10/02

Very Cool!!!

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Glucedee
1961/10/03

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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Brennan Camacho
1961/10/04

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

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Deanna
1961/10/05

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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Rainey Dawn
1961/10/06

Kirk Morris is Maciste, one of the Sons of Hercules! Again we have an evil character sacrificing young virgins to a fire god this time and the villain is the the wicked Queen Tenefi! Of course Maciste will come to save the day for the women and restore the throne of Memphis its rightful ruler, Prince Iram.We have the same thing, almost the same story as most of the others of this nature - just different faces and names for the characters. And this version of the same basic story plot is not all that grand.My Mill Creek copy is severely faded, not that that it really matters because it's a terrible film. Easy to see why this one (along with most of the others) fell into the public domain. No need for a restore here.1/10

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bkoganbing
1961/10/07

Maciste Triumphs finds him in ancient Egypt which was more ancient than ancient Greece where these muscle dudes usually operate. It seems as though an evil queen has triumphed over the rightful heir to the throne of Memphis and is keeping her subjects in line with sacrifices to a fire God aka volcano and some black magic tricks of her own.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.

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giuseppe-lippi
1961/10/08

After Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" resurfaced that dubious genius, some peninsular scandalmongers decided to find the local equivalent to Ed and declared Tanio Boccia (who directs here as Amerigo Anton), Italy's worst filmmaker ever. That's not to be taken without a grain of salt. More than anything else, Boccia/Anton was one of those directors who accepted everything, did not argue with producers, took his projects as just another job and never thought of identifying with them. The results are under everybody's eyes, but it has to be admitted that he would have never thought of a future, let alone international, survival of his modest output thanks to TV, videotapes or DVDs. In the case of "Il trionfo di Maciste", the boyish Kirk Morris (alias Adriano Bellini, a Venetian who also starred in Riccardo Freda's "Maciste all'inferno") is to be admired in the muscular chariots scene at the middle of the film, where he offers such a picture of sweat, fatigue and effort as to become a minor cult classic for voyeurs. Although I'm not a gay person, I can easily picture the enjoyment of this share of the audience before such a sequence. For the rest, a minor and quite slow output without the visual glamor of the best productions.

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dinky-4
1961/10/09

Using the traditional sword-and-sandal plot about the muscular hero freeing a populace from the tyranny of a beautiful but predatory queen, "Triumph" proceeds in a predictable manner which may please those who are undemanding and who expect no surprises. As usual the hero must pass a "Test of Strength" involving being pulled between two teams of horses, (a la Steve Reeves in "Goliath and the Barbarians"), and as usual the hero becomes the slave of the queen, (who lusts for his body), after she enchants him with a bit of magic. As usual, there's a "good girl" who also desires the hero and whose virtues stand in stark contrast to the queen's faults."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.

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