Warner Archive has come up with a real curio, something I’ve been wanting to see for some time — Gold For The Caesars (1963), an Italian sword-and-sandal picture starring Jeffrey Hunter (The Searchers) and directed by Andre de Toth (Man In The Saddle).
Hunter also made a spaghetti Western, Find A Place To Die (1968), while de Toth made a handful over films in Italy, including Morgan The Pirate (1961, starring Steve Reeves) and The Mongols (1966).
The artwork above looks like it was drawn by Al Williamson who used to do some science fiction comics work published by E.C. He idolized Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon and kept up the ‘brand’ after Raymond’s death.
I remember seeing this back in the 60′s, I can’t remember the film itself but it was advertised in our local paper as “GOLF FOR THE CAESARS” ! not unusual back then in the local press I remember also them having Vincent Price in “DAIRY OF A MADMAN” !
Those are great.
Back in the 80s, our local paper made a mistake with the Goldie Hawn movie SWING SHIFT. I’ll let you figure out what it was.
Arnold Perl was a very important television writer, about whom I’ve written on several occasions, and yet I’d never noticed that he wrote a peplum. Those were, of course, a common refuge for blacklisted writers, and yet by 1963 Perl was able to use his own name and seemed to have escaped the need to travel to Europe to work. I wonder if this took a few years to get made, or released.