Amazing Movie Posters

With posters featuring a stylized-drawing of Eva Six in a bikini, a tagline reading..."Temptation in Paradise...neither hell nor high heels could stop them", and a Dream Sequence Technical Adviser credit for Bob Marcucci, American-International once again proved it had no peers when it came to sleight-of-hand advertising selling a war-movie when war movies weren't selling. This one starts in the Pacific in 1943 when an American submarine staffed by the likes of Scott Brady, Jim Backus and Michael Dante (the old guns to get the old folks in) has a rendezvous with a cruiser to pick up an underwater demolition team comprised of the likes of Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Gary Crosby and Jody McCrea (the young turks to get the kids in, which probably only worked in Southern California), and there is conflict right off as the sub crew feels like they are being denied a chance to revenge the sinking of a sister sub because they have to deliver Tab and Frankie to an island on ...

Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive. Director: Pietro Francisci Writer: Pietro Francisci (screenplay) Stars: Kirk Morris, Iloosh Khoshabe, Liana Orfei

Though Genghis Khan eventually sought peace with the West, his death in 1227 AD puts into power his three war-like sons: Sayan, Susdal, and Kin Khan. These sons quickly overrun the city of Tuleda and take prisoner Princess Bianca, though young Prince Alessio escapes. Hercules comes to the rescue of Bianca, winning her freedom in a tournament in exchange for becoming a slave himself. Forces from the West soon come to re-take Tuleda and Hercules -- freed from his bonds -- helps to dispatch Genghis Khan's three sons while again saving Bianca and reuniting her with her young brother. Director: Domenico Paolella Writers: Alessandro Ferraù (screenplay), Luciano Martino (screenplay) Stars: Mark Forest, José Greci, Maria Grazia Spina

The king of Nogara dies, leaving behind a will naming one of his nieces as his successor. Will it be blonde and virtuous Isabella or evil, dark-haired Malva? Each woman relies on a hero to locate the will. Malva hires the bare-chested strongman Samson while Isabella relies on the masked El Toro (a.k.a. Zorro) even though her heart belongs to the mild-mannered poet, Ramon. Malva's ruthless desire for the throne soon alienates Samson and he and El Toro then team up to bring about a proper resolution to the Nogara succession. Meanwhile, Isabella learns El Toto's true identity, an identity which both surprises and pleases her. Director: Umberto Lenzi Writers: Gabriele D'Annunzio (character Maciste), Umberto Lenzi Stars: Pierre Brice, Sergio Ciani, Moira Orfei

A warrior does battle against the evil Medusa, her army of stone warriors and a monstrous dragon. Director: Alberto De Martino Writers: Mario Guerra (story), Luciano Martino (story) Stars: Richard Harrison, Anna Ranalli, Arturo Dominici

A pair of comical soldiers (Robert Ball and Frankie Ray) investigate a mysterious crater in an atomic detonation area and discover several beautiful alien vixens (Dolores Reed and Gloria Victor) who plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Director: Bruno VeSota (as Bruno Ve Sota) Writers: Jonathan Haze (screenplay), Jonathan Haze (story "Monsters from Nicholson Mesa") Stars: Robert Ball, Frankie Ray, Gloria Victor

Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones. Director: Jacques Tourneur Writer: Richard Matheson (screenplay) Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

Goliath battles for the freedom of the Babylonian people. Director: Michele Lupo Writers: Roberto Gianviti (story), Francesco Scardamaglia (story), 1 more credit » Stars: Mark Forest, José Greci, Giuliano Gemma

Italian sword & sandal thrills as the son of Hercules is pitted against an evil king and his wretched followers. Now in color. Director: Mario Caiano Writers: Gian Paolo Callegari, Albert Valentin Stars: Gordon Scott, Ombretta Colli, Massimo Serato

When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the family fortune if if her husband is alive. The Halorans are a strange family, still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter Kathleen who drowned in a pond when she was just a child. They hold an annual ceremony of remembrance every year on the anniversary of her death. This year however, someone is wielding an ax intent on murder. Director: Francis Ford Coppola (as Francis Coppola) Writers: Francis Ford Coppola (as Francis Coppola) , Jack Hill (second unit writer) Stars: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton

Director: Alberto De Martino Writers: Sandro Continenza (story), Alberto De Martino (screenplay) Stars: Tony Russel, Helga Liné, Massimo Serato

A slave architect in Gaul is ordered by a Roman governor to lead an expedition, constantly under danger of attack by Celtic warriors, to the Valley of the Sil to find much-needed gold for Rome Directors: André De Toth, Sabatino Ciuffini Writers: Arnold Perl, Florence A. Seward (novel) Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Mylène Demongeot, Ron Randell

A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help in this film loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem. Director: Roger Corman Writers: Richard Matheson (screenplay), Edgar Allan Poe (poem) Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff

Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross. Director: Gianfranco Parolini Writers: Giovanni Simonelli (story), Sergio Sollima (story) Stars: Roger Browne, José Greci, Dan Vadis

3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", Vincent Price plays a demented father innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, the Pyncheon brother kills his sister. Director: Sidney Salkow Writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne (based on the stories by), Robert E. Kent Stars: Vincent Price, Joyce Taylor, Sebastian Cabot