

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.
Direction
Cottafavi stages crowds like Renaissance paintings in motion.
Practical Effects
Genuine horses, real dust, zero CGI—1960s chaos energy.

Director
Vittorio Cottafavi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peplum films like this flourished in 1960s Italy as cheap alternatives to Hollywood epics, often recycling Hercules sets.
Director Vittorio Cottafavi disowned his earlier peplums but grew to appreciate this one for its visual ambition.
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