Last Days of Pompeii 1 Steve Reeves Ángel Aranda

—- Part 1 of 10 To continue with part 2, click the following link: www.youtube.com THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII (1960) starring Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Fernando Rey, Mimmo Palmara and Ángel Aranda. Pompeii week here at PEPLUMz. I’ve uploaded two different endings from two other Pompeii films, from the 1930s and the 1950s. Make sure to check them out. Great Peplum starring the great Steve Reeves amongst a great cast and co-directed by two great directors, Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci, after the original director, Mario Bonnard, died while shooting the film. Great sets, great costumes and great destruction effects. And the cinematography (as seen in this 4:3 version created by me) is great. It really pops out. The whole film is just, well, great! Steve looks absolutely amazing in this film and the green “peplum” he wears at the beginning is a perfect example of it. Fernando Rey, as recently seen overacting in Goliath & the Giants, is almost subdued here even though he basically plays the same role. And Christine Kaufmann is a beauty. The excellent cinematography really captures her youthful beauty. I enjoy this S&S film a lot. But aside from being an enjoyable film, it’s also, along with Revolt of the Slaves, one of the most important films of the Peplum genre. It was released during the transition phase of the S&S films of the 1950s (like Hercules or Sign of the Gladiator) and the more robust, more violent, more lusty, more outlandish Peplums that dominated the …