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Jul 22, 20 this classical peplum tells a fictitious story set in 490 bc, the time of the medic wars during which persian armies sweep the ancient world. Apr 19, 2017 le film the giant of marathon 1959 vostfr admin 20170419t23. If you put everything about the 80s in a blender, then some. Great day in the morning is a technicolor superscope 1956 film. Phillipides has his men take giant stakes into the water to set them upright at an angle to penetrate the bottoms of the persian ships. The giant of marathon 1959 steve reeves, mylene demongeot, sergio fantoni. The giant of marathon, also knows as the battle of marathon, was originally directed by jacques tourneur he was engaged to direct it for a period of eight weeks, but for some reason, which he mostly blamed on the fact that he had to shoot each scene four ways, in different languages, he failed to complete it in the allotted time. The giant of marathon 1959 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Translate subtitle gives you the option to translate subtitle into another language on this page, just click translate this subtitles into another language and you will be automatically transferred to another page where you can translate subtitles into. Alpha video has gone all out to present this fifth steve reeves effort and is the only company yet to issue this title on dvd which was filmed in dyaliscope and released stateside in may of 1960. Back down on the shore, phillipides has his men take giant stakes into the water to set them upright at an angle to penetrate the bottoms of the persian ships. The giant of marathon 1959 action adventure drama youtube. Giant of marathon 1959 jacques tourneur, bruno vailati, steve reeves, mylene demongeot, sergio fantoni. It was directed by jacques tourneur and mario bava.
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