These guys with their fur-clad shirts and leggings and either clean shaved (with a Knot of hair on top) or fright-wigged head really had me entertained. They looked and acted the part to a T. Stolid Steve Reeves seems at first to be at a distinct disadvantage against this horde but ultimately wins out. Steve's decked out for part of the film as a vengeance-minded Lion(?)Man (the first appearance of which is chilling). When the action is there this is a crazy sort of heavy, pulsating film. It's great to see that old libertine Bruce Cabot as the barbarian King swilling wine and groping after slave girls. And the actor portraying the barbarian with the perpetual hots for Chelo Alonso did what I thought was a fantastic job as a man with a true homicidal ill-temper. And I for one just do not care about the bad dubbing; this film and others like it are basically visual.
Review of Goliath and the Barbarians
