Not when you have to desk with sea monsters, giants and Amazons along the way. Brad Harris, one of four different actors to play the Peplum legendary character during a marathon of Goliath films I watched (made between 1960 and 1965), is strong and rugged, able to keep silly looking sea monsters off of his ship simply by slamming a big log in their mouth, and deal with wild beasts both of the human and hairy variety, keep the heroine (Gloria Milland) protected, and fight to claim a throne that was meant for him.
While this is colorful and filled with action, it is frequently slow and tedious, but Fernando Rey is a great villain as the usurper of the throne meant for Harris. Of course there's a wicked queen as well, filling Rey's head with the proud desire to keep his place on the throne. Games of torture leads to an exciting sequence that looks similar to games played in Rome, although this is definitely set long before Christians were fed to the lions. Just an average entry in the sword and sandal genre, pretty gruesome in spots, basically a passable time filler that could have been a lot more imaginative.
While this is colorful and filled with action, it is frequently slow and tedious, but Fernando Rey is a great villain as the usurper of the throne meant for Harris. Of course there's a wicked queen as well, filling Rey's head with the proud desire to keep his place on the throne. Games of torture leads to an exciting sequence that looks similar to games played in Rome, although this is definitely set long before Christians were fed to the lions. Just an average entry in the sword and sandal genre, pretty gruesome in spots, basically a passable time filler that could have been a lot more imaginative.