I saw a restored version of this film at a sword and sandal film festival hosted by ucla film school circa 2004. The legendary rockin alternate version of fritz langs silent scifi classic, on the big screen for the first time in almost thirty years. The new metropolis a two part documentary film and. The giant of metropolis 2008 obro the muscleman gordon mitchell goes to atlantis and sinks a deathray king bella cortez who knows the secret of immortality. A very imaginative scifi sword and sandales movie by umberto scarpelli starring gordon mitchel in maybe his best film shot in cine citta. Metropolis has a place in world history as well as in the annals of fantasy. Umberto, scarpelli, gladiator, giant, metropolis, fantasy, movie, trailer us movie trailer of the excellent italian sci fi sword and sandal classic il gigante di metropolis starring american beafcake gordon mitchell. Watch the full movie ohro travels to the capital of atlantis to rebuke its godless.
Here is a city which is home to some of the countrys indeed, the world. In this movie the hero obro, who looks a bit like charlton heston, has an adventure in the atlantian city of metropolis ruled by the evil lord yotar. Muscleman ohro travels to the sinful capital of atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord yohtar and his hideous superscience schemes. The new metropolis a two part documentary film and community engagement project a documentary video by andrea torrice. The despotic ruler of atlantis engages in mortal combat with a pumpedup, shirtless and sandalwearing italian muscleman in this scifi adventure set in the year 10,000 b.
Sadly this one didnt have the money pumped into it to create a film as good as clash. If you like the hercules movies, some of which are here at ia, youll like this. Muscleman ohro travels to the sinful capital of atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord yoh. Come to think of it, the metropolis in the film sounds remarkably like boulder, colorado, which i was in for a week earlier this summer ironically enough, to present a paper on improving teaching the science of evolution to the public. Metropolis predicts the ideologies of class and race of the 20th century, and there is a perennial frisson in the way the workers leader maria longs for a. Giant of metropolis is peplum pulp turned upside down and spun around. Aside from that, its a generic swordandsandals epic with some scifi elements added for zest. The giant of metropolis is a allegorical film that drowns in its own silliness long before it makes its point, which is fine, because its point is that science is awful and incurs gods wrath. The artist may have won the oscar for best costume, but the fashion world has taken its inspiration this season from fritz langs 1927 spectacular scifi silent film metropolis. Il gigante di metropolis is a 1961 color italian fantasy adventure film that was produced by decio salvi and emimmo salvi, directed by umberto scarpelli, that stars gordon mitchell and bella cortez plot. Expect bad acting, laughable special effects, and busty women. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title metropolis.
Adolf hitler was said to have loved it, and lang eventually fled germany for hollywood when the third reich wanted him. To say this movie is a departure from its genre would be a gigantic understatement. The giant of metropolis 1961 classic horror film board. The giant of metropolis il gigante di metropolis 1961. A few companies have to be applauded for trying to do it right, like retromedia with their version of the giant of metropolis 1961. The giant of metropolis is a 1961 color italian fantasy adventure film that was produced by decio salvi and emimmo salvi, directed by umberto scarpelli, that. If you dont see something here, please give us a call and doublecheck. Metropolis 1927 is a stylized, visuallycompelling, melodramatic silent film set in the dystopic, 21st century city of metropolis a dialectical treatise on man vs. Umberto scarpellis the giant of metropolis 1961 movie. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. The giant of metropolis is truly and outlier of the sword and sandalpeplum genre. Umberto scarpelli stepped infrequently in the directors chair the giant of metropolis reasonably engaging but invincibly juvenile such as it is was the last of only 5, for 3 of which he actually shared the credit with somebody else.
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