Sixties Cheesecake Dance No. 6

PLEASE READ THIS - Now here's a strange number. This dance sequence is from "La Regina delle Amazzoni" (Colossus and the Amazon Queen), an Italian sword and sandal epic from 1960. It starred Rod Taylor, the Australian actor best know for H G Wells' "The Time Machine" (also 1960), as Piro and, and sword and sandal stalwart, Ed Fury, as Glauco. They played wise-cracking strongmen who make the mistake of falling for a couple feisty Amazons on a Greek island. An actress with the inmprobable name of Dorian Gray (yes, the Oscar Wilde novel) played Antiope, Fury's love interest and Gianna Maria Canale played the Amazon Queen who becomes involved with Taylor. The film was directed by Vittorio Sala.

The incongruous hip brassy score and beat style choreography add a bizarre modern touch to this piece of peplum.

I am always looking for new ideas for this series. If you have any suggestions please don't hesitate to drop me a line.

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[LivingMindfully1975]

I think I see pubes!

[pwgr2000]

Please give us a time reference so we can all confirm whether you are correct or just having erotic visions.

[LivingMindfully1975]

@pwgr2000 The guy to the far left between :17 and :25 I am pretty sure it's pubes.

[pwgr2000]

Wow! Definitely worth staying home on Saturday night for.

[rasputin63]

This is kind of Jerome Robbins-style, WDEST SIDE STORY dancing.

Looks like the guys are speaking...what?...Italian?

This seems a rather homoerotic movie for 1960 (where I place this film.. corrections?)

[pwgr2000]

I suggest you read the information I posted when I uploaded this clip. It gives some of the background of this film, including when it was made. And I even comment on the beat style choreography.

How come no one ever reads that stuff?

[cosmiclight]

Yes, pwgr2000 has done the homework here. Nice info write-up on the choreography. It is definitely beat style, as in West Side Story. I miss these days of watching old movies as a kid in the late 50's ~ early 1960's

[EduarquiRJ]

I love this self-confidence: they made a bizarre film without aesthetical or historical prejudices, so we can see now a masterpiece of delightful confusion. I enjoyed a lot to see this and other videos you placed here, then I made my inscription. Thank you very much for sharing with us these nice films!

[scotpens]

So jazz ballet was invented by the Greeks 2500 years ago! There really is nothing new under the sun.

[LightningChimp]

Thanks for posting this amazing clip, and I sure as heck don't think it's homoerotic, what with the many, many groovy chicks shaking their shekel-makers in the scene.

[Tareltonlives]

Trippy

[rasputin63]

Ouch! And I thought I was being so original.  sorry.