Product Description

Travel back to an age of bare-chested heroes, capricious and vengeful gods, fantastic creatures, swords, sorcery and beautiful maidens in distress. This amazing 13-disc collection brings to life a cornucopia of legendary warriors from Hercules, Achilles and Ulysses to Samson, Goliath and Colossus. All for an amazingly low price!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13659 in DVD
• Brand: MILL CREEK ENT. (UNDER DIGITAL
• Released on: 2006-04-18
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 13
• Dimensions: 1.05 pounds
• Running time: 4464 minutes

Features

• Travel back to an age of bare-chested heroes, capricious and vengeful gods, fantastic creatures, swords, sorcery and beautiful maidens in distress. This amazing 13-disc collection brings to life a cornucopia of legendary warriors from Hercules, Achilles and Ulysses to Samson, Goliath and Colossus. All for an amazingly low price! System Requirements: Movies Included:, Ali Baba and the Seven Sa

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1 Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens, 2 Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops, 3 The Avenger, 4 Caesar the Conqueror, 5 Cleopatra s Daughter, 6 Colossus and the Amazon Queen, 7 Colossus and the Headhunters, 8 The Conqueror of the Orient, 9 Damon and Pythias, 10 David and Goliath, 11 Duel of Champions, 12 Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules, 13 Fury of Achilles, 14 Fury of Hercules, 15 The Giant of Marathon, 16 The Giants of Rome, 17 The Giants of Thessaly, 18 Gladiators of Rome, 19 Goliath and the Dragon, 20 Goliath and the Sins of Babylon, 21 Hercules against the Barbarians, 22 Hercules against the Mongols, 23 Hercules against the Moon Men, 24 Hercules and the Captive Women, 25 Hercules and the Masked Rider, 26 Hercules and the Princess of Troy, 27 Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon, 28 Hercules Unchained, 29 Hero of Rome, 30 Herod the Great, 31 Kindar the Invulnerable, 32 The Last of the Vikings, 33 Maciste in King Solomon s Mines, 34 Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules, 35 Queen of the Amazons, 36 Romulus and the Sabines, 37 Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World, 38 Son of Hercules in the Land of Darkness, 39 Son of Samson, 40 Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators, 41 The Ten Gladiators, 42 Thor and the Amazon Women, 43 Triumph of the Son of Hercules, 44 Two Gladiators, 45 Ulysses against the Son of Hercules, 46 Ursus in the Land of Fire, 47 Ursus in the Valley of the Lions, 48 Vengeance of Ursus, 49 Vulcan, Son of Jupiter, 50 The White Warrior

Customer Reviews

Unbeatable!! A Genuine Treat For Peplum Fans, Or Anyone Who Likes Movies With Imagination
Yeah OK, the source prints used for this DVD box set are kind of nappy lookin', dubiously collected (check how the bottom of many of the films is cropped off by a black bar to conceal a smaller company's watermark, then re-watermarked by Mill Creek ... one almost has to admire the nerve ...), atrociously presented, ambiguously "digitally remastered" -- a term that can mean anything starting with "Recorded onto DVD from a VHS" -- and sort of haphazardly collected onto 12 bare bones double sided DVDs that your 12 year old could more imaginatively author on mom's orange iMac after school for a rainy day keep busy project. Many of the films have already been released on DVD by companies like Alpha Video & Something Weird, which sadly may have been the sources for what is on this box set, so don't expect any "upgrades" on what you may already have in your collection, and indeed stuff like HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD have been released on excellent archivally sensitive DVDs. It is a mixed bag to say the least.

*BUT*, anybody who loves Peplum "Sword and Sandal" muscleman films with Gladiators, Hercules/Sampson types, lots of Pizza Pizza guards with plumed helmets and gorgeous Italian supporting actresses dressed in flimsy garments performing Veil Dances OR any student of Italian cult B cinema like myself will be well served by this collection. Filmmakers like Mario Bava, Ruggero Deodato, Antonio Margheriti, writers like Ernesto Gastaldi, Bruno Corbucci, composers like Marcello Giombini & Bruno Niccola -- they all got their start in cinema working on these Peplum cheapies, some of which are very imaginatively staged and filled with a kind of endearing charm which seems beyond the grasp of today's big name filmmakers. Peter Jackson's big name projects cannot hold a candle to stuff like FIRE MONSTERS VS. THE SON OF HERCULES, KINDAR THE INVINCIBLE and GOLIATH VS. THE MOON MEN, which are brimming with imagination and intrigue that still has the power to delight viewers of all ages even forty-five years after they were made.

That's another thing I like about this box set: Here are 50 films that the whole family can enjoy *TOGETHER* for the most part. Sure, some of them might seem a bit violent to a conflict resolution oriented culture raised on the Care Bears and the teachings of Albert Gore Jr., but there really isn't anything on these films that would be unsuitable for somebody over the age of 10 or so, and what's more important is that the kids won't care about the print qualities one bit. They will be too busy wondering what it would be like to be a Son of Hercules, able to tear trees out of the ground and swing them like a baseball bat, or what it would be like to be a Queen of Rome who makes valiant gladiators swoon at her sandaled feet ... Mom will be too busy admiring the chiseled looks & beefanoid muscular chests of Steve Reeves, Gordon Mitchell, Kirk Morris and Richard Harrison, and Dad will get this funny look on his face during the Veil Dance sequences that are an inevitable and enjoyably innocently cheuvanistic element in these films. Everybody likes a good Veil Dance, and that funny look means that Dad is wondering what it would be like to have a whole harem of them waiting back in his chambers after the kids are tucked in bed. Who wouldn't?

Juvenile fantasies aside, these movies also aren't going to get any better looking: Most of the original source material has been lost to time & neglect -- the bulk of the material is ultimately based on old fullframe English language TV prints that savvy brained individuals rescued from trash dumpsters or at foreclosure auctions when local TV stations stopped showing matinee type movies on the weekends. A lot of the prints are worn and tattered, color rotted or bulb decayed to the point of having their color nearly completely washed out, and re-formatted for small screen presentation in a slipshod manner that had no sensitivity for shot compositions. Not that these were decisions made by the DVD company, mind you, it's just that the genre itself was thought so poorly of that nobody took care of the material and sadly, what you see on these DVDs is about all that's left of them. So don't blame the messenger: Mill Creek did what it could with the material, and you get so much of it that in the long run it doesn't really matter what they look like. And at roughly $.50 cents/film they can be whatever they are and still be a fantastic value.

So here is a highly recommended collection of films for anyone who needs a bunch of cheap DVDs to take to the lake house for the summer or even just for sitting around being bored until school starts up again. And again, for students of the golden era of Euro cult filmmaking this is a must-have history course on how our idol filmmakers & stars got their start in the business, and what a tragic loss the Veil Dance tradition has been to our standards of entertainment.

On a 1 to 10 scale, this collection is rated: 4.5
The heyday of the swords & sandals epics was brief: 1959 to '64. Primarily Italian-made (although French and other European concerns had a hand in many of these), the films usually featured an American or British headliner along with a cast of native talent. Historic location shoots added to the glamor of these action-packed morality plays (that the good guys usually won). They were fun, exciting, filled with beautiful people, costumes and scenery, and are of a unique cinematic style that will probably never be seen again.

Featured actors in the WARRIORS 50 MOVIE PACK COLLECTION include Steve Reeves, Cameron Mitchell, Ed Fury, Mark Forest, Gordon Scott, Guy Williams, Reg Park and Gordon Mitchell. One movie actually stars a young Roger Moore, while ex-heavyweight boxer (and giant) Primo Carnera has a supporting role in another. Also to be found here: Orson Welles, Broderick Crawford, Alan Ladd, Debra Paget, Robert Alda and more!

The averaged-out score for this box set was obtained from user polling data gathered by a cinema-related website. On a 1 to 10 scale, WARRIORS current rating is 4.5.


The following alphabetized list includes individual ratings, year of release, country of origin, as well as main actors.

(3.9) Ali Baba And The Seven Saracens (Italy-1964) - Gordon Mitchell/Bella Cortez
(5.4) Atlas In The Land Of The Cyclops (Italy-1961) - Gordon Mitchell/Paul Wynter (in support)
(5.1) The Avenger (Yugoslavia/Italy/France-1962) - Steve Reeves/Carla Marlier
(5.6) Caesar The Conqueror (Italy-1962) - Cameron Mitchell/Rik Battaglia
(4.7) Cleopatra's Daughter (Italy/France-1960) - Debra Paget/Robert Alda
(4.0) Colossus And The Amazon Queen (Italy-1960) - Rod Taylor/Ed Fury/Dorian Gray
(1.4) Colossus And The Headhunters (Italy-1960) - Kirk Morris/Laura Brown
(???) Conqueror Of The Orient (France/Italy-1960) - Rik Battaglia
(3.5) Damon And Pythias (Italy-1962) - Guy Williams/Don Burnett
(4.7) David & Goliath (Italy-1960) - Orson Welles
(4.1) Duel Of Champions (Italy-1961) - Robert Keith/Alan Ladd/Alana Ladd (all in support)
(4.7) Fire Monsters Against The Son Of Hercules (Italy-1962) - Reg Lewis/Margaret Lee
(5.0) Fury Of Achilles (Italy-1962) - Gordon Mitchell
(4.4) Fury Of Hercules (Italy/France-1962) - Brad Harris
(5.3) The Giant Of Marathon (Italy/France-1959) - Steve Reeves
(5.8) Giants of Rome (Italy/France-1964) - Richard Harrison
(5.2) The Giants Of Thessaly (Italy/France-1962) - Roland Carey
(4.3) Gladiator Of Rome (Italy-1962) - Gordon Scott
(4.7) Goliath And The Dragon (Italy/France-1960) - Mark Forest/Broderick Crawford
(6.1) Goliath And The Sins Of Babylon (Italy-1963) - Mark Forest
(6.0) Hercules Against The Barbarians (Italy-1964) - Mark Forest/Howard Ross
(4.6) Hercules Against The Mongols (Italy-1963) - Mark Forest/Ken Clark/Howard Ross
(1.9) Hercules Against The Moon Men (France/Italy-1964) - Sergio Ciani (as Alan Steel)/Jany Clair
(2.7) Hercules And The Captive Women (Italy/France-1961) - Reg Park/Fay Spain
(4.1) Hercules And The Masked Rider (Italy-1964) - Sergio Ciani (as Alan Steel)
(4.4) Hercules And The Princess Of Troy (TV-Italy-1965) - Gordon Scott/Diana Hyland/Gordon Mitchell
(4.9) Hercules And The Tyrants Of Babylon (Italy-1964) - Peter Lupus
(3.6) Hercules Unchained (Italy/France/Spain-1959) - Steve Reeves/Primo Carnera
(5.6) Hero Of Rome (Italy-1964) - Gordon Scott
(5.1) Herod The Great (Italy/France-1959) - Edmund Purdom/Sylvia Lopez
(5.2) Kindar The Invulnerable (Italy/Egypt-1964) - Mark Forest/Howard Ross
(5.0) The Last Of The Vikings (Italy/France-1961) - Cameron Mitchell/Edmund Purdom
(6.6) Maciste In King Solomon's Mines (Italy-1964) - Reg Park/Wandisa Guida
(5.2) Mole Men Against The Son Of Hercules (Italy-1961) - Mark Forest/Paul Wynter
(3.7) Queen Of The Amazons (1947) - Robert Lowery/Patricia Morison
(4.3) Romulus And The Sabines (Italy/France/Yugoslavia-1961) - Roger Moore/Walter Barnes (in support)
(5.8) Samson And The Seven Miracles Of The World (Italy/France-1961) - Gordon Scott
(3.1) Son Of Hercules: The Land Of Darkness (Italy-1963) - Dan Vadis/Ken Clark/John Simons
(5.4) Son of Samson (Italy/France/Yugoslavia-1960) - Mark Forest/Peter Dorric/Terence Hill
(3.2) Spartacus And The Ten Gladiators (Italy/Spain/France-1964) - Dan Vadis/Ursula Davis
(4.7) The Ten Gladiators (Italy-1963) - Dan Vadis/Roger Browne/Margaret Taylor
(6.4) Thor And The Amazon Women (Italy-1963) - Joe Robinson/Susy Andersen/Harry Baird
(3.2) Triumph Of The Son Of Hercules (Italy/France-1961) - Kirk Morris
(5.8) Two Gladiators (Italy-1964) - Richard Harrison
(4.6) Ulysses Against The Son Of Hercules (Italy/France-1961) - Mike Lane
(4.2) Ursus In The Land Of Fire (Italy-1963) - Ed Fury
(5.2) Ursus In The Valley Of The Lions (Italy-1961) - Ed Fury
(5.4) Vengeance Of Ursus (Italy-1961) - Samson Burke/Wandisa Guida
(5.4) Vulcan, Son Of Jupiter (Italy-1961) - Richard Lloyd/Gordon Mitchell/Roger Browne
(5.0) The White Warrior - (Italy/Yugoslavia-1959) - Steve Reeves

Digitally remastered? I don't think so.
Looking at the box for this Warrior 50-pack, it says "Digitally Remastered." That can be very misleading. I just got through viewing at least 40 minutes of each movie in this set and there is not one that is of decent quality. ALL of these movies are of the worst possible quality. Maybe they meant to say "digitally remastered from copies that sat in someone's toilet for many years." But then again, that wouldn't sell many box sets.

If you can get past the quality thing, there is a bargain to be found here. 50 movies at this price is a good deal and all of the cheesy sword and sandal flicks are here in one package. I've seen better quality of some of these same movies in other much smaller sets and when they are sold individually. It's like they intentionally make up for getting so many movies by not caring about the quality at all. There's even some mislabeling on the dvd inserts, like the very first dvd out of the box is mislabled with the wrong movie name. I just wonder how much time was put into making this Warrior 50-pack dvd set.