''Colossus and the Amazon Queen'' (/ ''Queen of the Amazons'') is a 1960 Italian

sword and sandal Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (: pepla), 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 Holly ...

comedy film directed by

Vittorio Sala Vittorio Sala (1918–1996) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.Capua p.195 Selected filmography * ''A Woman Alone (1956 film), A Woman Alone'' (1956) * ''Wild Cats on the Beach'' (1959) * ''Colossus and the Amazon Queen'' (1960) * ''I D ...

Cast

Rod Taylor Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including '' Young Cassidy'' (1965), '' Nobody Runs Forever'' (1968), '' The Train Robbers'' (1973), and '' A Matt ...

as Pirro * Ed Fury as Glauco *

Dorian Gray ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is an 1890 philosophical fiction and Gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical ''Lippincott's Monthly M ...

as Antiope * Daniela Rocca as Melitta *

Gianna Maria Canale Gianna Maria Canale (12 September 1927 – 13 February 2009) was an Italian film actress. Biography Canale was born in 1927 in Reggio Calabria. In 1947, she competed in the Miss Italia beauty contest, where she was runner-up to Lucia B ...

as La Regina *

Alberto Farnese Alberto Farnese (3 June 1926 – 2 June 1996) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows from 1951 to 1989. He starred in the film '' Whom God Forgives'', which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the ...

as Losco - Il pirata *

Giorgia Moll Giorgia Moll (born 14 January 1938) is an Italian film actress. She was sometimes credited as Georgia Moll and Georgia Mool. Background Moll was born in Prata di Pordenone to a German father and an Italian mother. At a young age, she began a b ...

as Amazone *

Folco Lulli Folco Lulli (3 July 1912 – 23 May 1970) was an Italian partisan and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1946 and 1970. Life and career Born in Florence, the son of the baritone Gino Lulli and the elder brother of actor ...

Ignazio Leone Ignazio Leone (19 April 1923 – 30 December 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1952 and 1976. Selected filmography * '' The Walk'' (1953) * '' I Chose Love'' (1953) * '' Amici per la pelle'' (1955) * '' A Wo ...

as Sopho * Adriana Facchetti as Sacerdota * Paola Falchi as Amazone *

Enzo Cerusico Enzo Cerusico (22 October 1937 – 26 November 1991) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1948 and 1984. Life and career The son of a production manager, Cerusico started his career as a child actor in 1948 ...

as Menandro *

Marco Tulli Marco Tulli (20 November 1920 – 20 March 1982) was an Italian character actor, probably best known in the role of "Smilzo" in the Don Camillo film series. Born in Rome, Tulli debuted as actor while he was still a university student, at the en ...

as Eumeo - Oste

Production

The film stars two American actors in the lead roles,

and bodybuilder Ed Fury. Taylor claims to have rewritten the script extensively.Stephen Vagg, ''Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood'', Bear Manor Media, 2010 p 72

Release

''Colossus and the Amazon Queen'' was released in Italy on 8 September 1960 with a 98-minute running time. It was released in the United States in 1964 with an 84-minute running time.

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* * 1960 films 1960s Italian-language films 1960 adventure films Films directed by Vittorio Sala Films set in ancient Greece Sword-and-sandal Sword-and-sandal films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-adventure-film-stub