Watch Il Colosso di Rodi (1961) Free Online

Release Date: 1961

Cast: Roberto Camardiel, Lea Massari, Mabel Karr, Georges Marchal, Ángel Aranda, Rory Calhoun, Mimmo Palmara, George Rigaud

Categories: Movies, Costume Adventure, Drama Film, Action, Adventure, Sword And Sandal, Epic, World Cinema, Historical Drama, Action/Adventure

Il Colosso di Rodi (English title: The Colossus of Rhodes) is a 1961 sword and sandal film directed by Sergio Leone. It was Leone's first work as a credited director, in a genre where he already had worked before (as a secondary director for Ben-Hur, and Quo Vadis). It is by far the least known of his films. It is also notable for being his only film without an Ennio Morricone score. A Greek military hero named Darios (Rory Calhoun) visits his uncle Lissipu (George Rigaud) on the island of Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossal statue of the... MORE

Il Colosso di Rodi (English title: The Colossus of Rhodes) is a 1961 sword and sandal film directed by Sergio Leone. It was Leone's first work as a credited director, in a genre where he already had worked before (as a secondary director for Ben-Hur, and Quo Vadis). It is by far the least known of his films. It is also notable for being his only film without an Ennio Morricone score. A Greek military hero named Darios (Rory Calhoun) visits his uncle Lissipu (George Rigaud) on the island of Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossal statue of the god Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance with Phoenicia, which would be hostile to Greece. Darios flirts with the beautiful Diala (Lea Massari), daughter of the statue's mastermind, Carete (Félix Fernández), while becoming involved with a group of rebels headed by Peliocles (Georges Marchal). These rebels seek to overthrow Rhodes' tyrannical king Serse (Roberto Camardiel); but so does Serse's evil second-in-command, Thar (Conrado San Martín). He has Phoenician soldiers smuggled into Rhodes as slaves, and his men occupy the Colossus to secure safe entrance for the Phoenician LESS