Genre:
Action + Fantasy + Horror

Synopsis:
The character was revived in the 1960s. In 1958, Steve Reeves' Hercules, an Italian production, created a minor boom in Italian dramas featuring American bodybuilders in vaguely mythological or classical historical subjects. The actual mythology was frequently pied to make up the improbable plots. Maciste was a frequently recurring hero in these films. This sword and sandal fad continued for about seven years, until the new fad for spaghetti Westerns took over the attention of the Italian cinema industry. The title character in the English version of several of these films was not Maciste: when these films were imported into the USA and dubbed in English (usually in a poor way), the hero's name was often changed to Hercules, Samson, Goliath, Atlas, or Colossus, because the name of Maciste was not widely recognised in the USA.

There were a total of 25 Maciste films from the 1960s sword-and-sandal revival.
(from wickipedia.org)

Casts:
Mark Forest ... Maciste 1960
Gordon Scott ... Maciste 1961
Kirk Morris ... Maciste 1961-1962-1964
Gordon Mitchell ... Maciste 1961
Mark Forest ... Maciste 1961 1962 1963 1964
Reg Lewis ... Maciste 1962
Ed Fury ... Maciste 1962
Samson Burke ... Maciste 1962
Sergio Ciani ... Maciste 1963 1964
Howard Ross ... Maciste 1964
Richard Lloyd ... Maciste 1964
Reg Park ... Maciste 1964

The Complete Movie Serie:
Maciste nella valle dei re (1960)
Maciste contro il vampiro (1961)
Maciste nella terra dei ciclopi (1961)
Maciste, l'uomo più forte del mondo (1961)
Maciste contro Ercole nella valle dei guai (1961)
Trionfo di Maciste (1961)
Maciste alla corte del Gran Khan (1961)
Maciste all'inferno (1962)
Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste (1962)
Maciste contro lo sceicco (1962)
Maciste contro i mostri (1962)
Maciste, il gladiatore più forte del mondo (1962)
Totò contro Maciste (1962)
Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (1963)
Zorro contro Maciste (1963)
Sandok, il Maciste della giungla (1964)
Invincibili fratelli Maciste, Gli (1964)
Maciste alla corte dello zar (1964)
Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili (1964)
Maciste contro i Mongoli (1963)
Maciste e la regina di Samar (1964)
Maciste nelle miniere di re Salomone (1964)
Maciste nell'inferno di Gengis Khan (1964)
Maciste, gladiatore di Sparta (1964)

and in the 1973 a French version of Maciste in the movie

Maciste contre la reine des Amazones (1973)

Country:
Italy

Superheroes:
Maciste
(Hercules/Samson/Giant/Atlas/Goliath/Marcellus/Colossus in other countries outside Italy)

The character inspired the comic book:
"Warlords" © DC Comics

Internal links:
Hercules (1983) (movie series 1983-1985)
Ursus (1961) (movie series 1961-1964)
Ercole (1957) (movie series 1957-1965)

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