The Trojan Horse (1961)

Original title: La Guerra di Troia

Director: Giorgio Ferroni

Writers: Giorgio Ferroni, Ugo Liberatore, Giorgio Stegani, Federico Zardi

Composers: Mario Ammonini, Giovanni Fusco

Starring: Steve Reeves, Juliette Mayniel, John Drew Barrymore, Edy Vessel, Lidia Alfonsi, Warner Bentivegna, Luciana Angiolillo, Arturo Dominici

More info: IMDb 

Tagline: The World's Mightiest Man In The Mightiest Spectacle Ever Filmed.

Plot: A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy.

My rating: 7/10

Will I watch it again? Probably not.

This Italian Sword & Sandal picture is pretty good.  It's got good production value plus it never hurts to have Steve Reeves as the ass-kicking lead badass.  There's A LOT of action in this flick.  It takes a while for the Trojan horse to make its way into the story (and even longer before you know what happens) but there's plenty to like up until then.  The battle scenes are smart enough to break up the massive amounts of soldiers slinging swords to include lots of close ups on some of them doing other things other than hand-to-hand combat.  I'm so used to seeing Reeves as a shirtless Hercules or whomever that it's weird seeing him spend most of the film with clothes on but he's still got that manly as shit beard plus, you know, the kicking everybody's ass stuff.  It's a good flick and I can see watching this again someday but not before revisiting some of the better films of the genre that's littered with mediocrity.