Duel of the Titans [Romolo e Remo] ** (1961, Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Virna Lisi, Jacques Sernas, Massimo Girotti, Arnelia Vanoni, Franco Volpi, Laura Solari) – Classic Movie Review 8049

Director Sergio Corbucci’s 1961 dubbed Italian costume adventure Duel of the Titans [Romolo e Remo] features two grand musclemen for the price of one as screen hunks Steve Reeves and Gordon Scott appear as Romulus and Remus, the legendary brothers raised by wolves in pre-Roman Italy.

[Spoiler alert] Italian movie goddess Virna Lisi plays the lovely lady Julia, princess of the Sabines, whom the brothers fight over, until victorious Reeves kills his crazy sibling and goes off to found the Roman Empire.

Also in the cast are Jacques Sernas, Massimo Girotti, Arnelia Vanoni, Franco Volpi, Laura Solari and Franco Balducci.

This enjoyable junk is attractively shot in CinemaScope and Eastmancolor, and was a hit in Italy, and went on to become Reeves’s biggest hit in America. It includes Sergio Leone (dialogue and story) as one of its seven scriptwriters, along with Corbucci (story and screenplay), Luciano Martino (story and screenplay), Sergio Prosperi, Franco Rossetti (screenplay), Ennio De Concini (screenplay) and Duccio Tessari (screenplay).

Former Tarzan Scott was a friend of Hercules star Steve Reeves, who got him to play Remus opposite his Romulus in Duel of the Titans (1961).

© Derek Winnert 2019 Classic Movie Review 8049

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