Goliath and the Barbarians

Goliath and the Barbarians
Film poster by Reynold Brown
Directed by Carlo Campogalliani
Produced by Emimmo Salvi
Written by Emimmo Salvi
Gino Mangini
Nino Stresa
Giuseppe Taffarel
Music by Carlo Innocenzi
Cinematography Bitto Albertini
Edited by Franco Fraticelli
Distributed by American International Pictures (USA)
Release date
 June 30, 1959 (Italy)
November, 1959 (USA)[1]
Running time
 100 minutes [2]
Country Italy
Language English
Box office $1.6 million (North America)[3]

Il terrore dei barbari (Terror of the Barbarians), aka Goliath and the Barbarians, is a 1959 peplum loosely based on events of the Lombard invasion of Italy in AD 568. As with many Italian peplums of the time, the English dubbed version renamed some of the characters (for example, "Emiliano" became "Goliath").

Plot

Set in the 6th century, it follows the start of the Barbarian invasions and deals with one group that attacks a village and destroys anything that is there. One man, Emiliano, son of the village leader, is away at the time of attack. He swears revenge and wages a one-man war against the evil tribes. He also is helped by the survivors and his sister Lynda. He wears a lion head mask to instill fear into the hearts of the barbarians.

Cast

US Release

American International Pictures released the film in the US with a new score by Les Baxter. AIP invested $20,000 in the movie to help the producers complete it and were rewarded when it became a big hit.[4] The film earned $1.6 million in North America during its initial release where it was double billed with Sign of the Gladiator[3]

AIP announced plans to make a follow up called Goliath and the Dragon from a script by Lou Rusoff with Debra Paget but this fell through and they ended up buying an Italian film called The Revenge of Hercules and simply renaming it Goliath and the Dragon.[5]

DVD Releases

This film was released on a limited edition DVD by Wild East Productions in 2007 as a double feature with Goliath and the Vampires.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Della Casa, Steve; Giusti, Marco (2013). "Il Grande Libro di Ercole". Edizione Sabinae. Page 296. ISBN 978-88-98623-051
  2. ↑ Della Casa, Steve; Giusti, Marco (2013). "Il Grande Libro di Ercole". Edizione Sabinae. Page 296. ISBN 978-88-98623-051
  3. 1 2 "Rental Potentials of 1960", Variety, 4 January 1961 p 47. Please note figures are rentals as opposed to total gross.
  4. ↑ Mark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p155
  5. ↑ Gary A. Smith American International Pictures: The Golden Era, Bear Manor Media 2013 p 144
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