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This Maciste film, called Atlas in some versions, has him crossing paths with Circe and Polyphemus, of The Odyssey. There is a queen hidden among a bunch of female slaves (a recurring theme in these sword-and-sandal flicks), and painfully wooden dubbing. The cyclops fight at the end is okay, but it's anti-climactic after two other muscly set pieces: one has Maciste in the middle of a tug-of-war contest as he's perched over a lion's den; another has him rowing a slave ship all by himself. This is a slightly below-average entry in the series and will certainly will no new fans. The most common English dubbed version is badly cropped, with horribly degraded picture quality.
Series Entries
Son of Samson (1960)
Atlas In the Land of the Cyclops (1961) (aka: "Atlas Against the Cyclops")
Goliath and the Vampires (1961)
Triumph of the Son of Hercules (1961)
Samson and the Seven Miracles of the World (1961)
Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961)
Hercules In the Valley of Woe (1961)
Maciste In Hell (1962) (aka: "The Witch's Curse")
Samson Against the Sheik (1962)
Colossus of the Arena (1962)
Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules (1962)
Colossus and the Headhunters (1963)
Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963)
Samson and the Slave Queen (1963)
Hercules Against the Mongols (1963)
Hercules Against the Barbarians (1964)
Atlas Against the Czar (1964)
The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
Maciste In King Solomon's Mines (1964)
Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964) (aka: "Hercules Vs. the Moon Men")
Hercules of the Desert (1964)
Samson and the Mighty Challenge (1964)
The Invincible Brothers Maciste (1964) (aka: "The Invincible Gladiators")
Maciste, Avenger of the Mayans (1965)