Above- here Steve Reeves displays his flair for comedy and fantasy adventure as he trades sandals for swords and flying horses. Photo by Walmart

From Zorro to Hercules: A Journey through Italian Sword and Sandal Films and Fantasy

Three decades of swashbuckling, swords drawn and sandals…. Genies and Magic

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Thirty years of more than just peplum films. Sword and Sandal is an all-encompassing genre with peplum a sub-genre. Or least an argument could be made to support that idea and claim. But that is not why we are here. This is an opportunity to introduce all of this wonderful and adventure laden part of cinema to you-the moviegoer and film buff-the fans of mythology and westerns to films such as the Three Musketeers, Zorro and the 7 Gladiators or the Thief of Baghdad. However, it also about one particular countries contribution the realm of what else sword and sandal-Italian style.

Above-Even Steve Reeves took off his sandals every once in a while. And here he is as Captain Morgan. A German release poster for this very rollicking adventure at sea from Italy. Photo by IMDB

Well for all this glorious time of cinema which the majority of these films were produced during the ’60s and very early to mid…