Mark Forest

José Greci

Giuliano Gemma

Erno Crisa

Mimmo Palmara

Livio Lorenzon

Piero Lulli

Paul Müller

Eleonora Bianchi

Jacques Herlin

Alfio Caltabiano

Arnaldo Fabrizio

Ugo Sasso

Harold Bradley

Calisto Calisti

Nello Pazzafini

Loris Loddi

Emilio Messina

Gianni Di Segni

Vezio Natili

Joe Kamel

Michele Lupo

Roberto Gianviti

Francesco Scardamaglia

Lionello De Felice

Salvatore Billitteri

Elio Scardamaglia

Francesco De Masi

Guglielmo Mancori

Alberto Gallitti

Christopher Holmes

Pier Vittorio Marchi

Mario Giorsi

Adventure

Fantasy

Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo

Leone Film

American International Pictures

Italy

CinemaSerf

Technically, this is at the better end of the genre as both the production standards and - mercifully - the dubbing hold up quite well. Mark Forest could hardly be described as versatile, or good - really - but here, he is also quite decent as the eponymous hero who steps in to stop the annual tribute of thirty young virgins being sent from his Nefer homeland to Babylon. Certainly, the plot offers nothing new - we have seen the same story time and time again with the hero being "Hercules" or "Maciste", but the costumes and sets are colourful and vibrant, there is plenty of strong-man action and although it is a bit heavy on the dialogue side from time to-time, it's still quite an entertaining sword and sandals caper full of the usual court intrigues, gladiatorial sword fights and quite a fun contribution from Arnaldo Fabrizio ("Ninneto") too. You won't remember it afterwards, but it passes eighty-odd minutes amiably enough.

Italiano

Goliath and the Sins of Babylon

Goliath and the Sins of Babylon 1963