Sword-and-sandal

id: sword-and-sandal-177-7823963
title: Sword-and-sandal
text: Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum, is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Samson and Delilah (1949), Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960), and Cleopatra (1963). These films dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventual
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description: Genre of largely Italian-made historical or biblical epics
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword-and-sandal
date created: 2003-06-27T00:26:22Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T13:49:37Z
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