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A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
Mylène Demongeot
- Andromeda
- (as Mylene Demongeot)
Daniele Vargas
- Darius - King of Persia
- (as Daniele Varga)
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- TriviaDirector of photography Mario Bava was called to step in as director (uncredited) to finish the film, as Jacques Tourneur did not wish to extend his ten-month contract. Galatea Film decided to reward Bava by giving him a chance to develop his own project as a solo director, Black Sunday (1960).
- GoofsAt 44:17, the stunt rider meant to represent an enemy attacker is much darker than the actor he's doubling.
- Crazy credits[U.S. poster] In Daring Color!
- Alternate versionsThe version now being seen in the USA was taken from the Lux (French) release version. It has been modified with the main title in English (the remainder of the credits are in French) and the English dialog track. It also contains shots of graphic violence that were deleted from the original US version that was released to theatres by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1960.
- ConnectionsEdited into Alexander the Great (1963)
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Pretty dull stuff
Unlike most other European sword and sandal movies of this period, "The Giant of Marathon" was picked up for North American distribution by a major Hollywood studio (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). My guess is that MGM was trying to cash in on the box office success that independent studio Embassy Pictures has with "Hercules", another sword and sandal movie with the same actor (Steve Reeves). That's the only reason why I can think of, because honestly I can't see any other selling points that the movie has. Even by standards of the era, the movie is really dull for the most part; for one thing, there is almost no action in the first half of the movie. While the second half does have some battlefield action, it's not particularly well choreographed or directed; it's not that much more exciting than what happened in the first half of the movie. Most of the movie is instead talk talk talk, none it it really engaging or interesting. I'm sure audiences back then were really bored by this movie. So it's no wonder that nobody was apparently interested in renewing the copyright for the movie, since it's now in the public domain and freely available to bore a new generation of moviegoers.
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- The Battle of Marathon
- Filming locations
- Titanus, Rome, Lazio, Italy(Studio)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,335,000
- Gross worldwide
- $2,735,000
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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