Good fun for the Saturday afternoon crowd and Reeves fans in general.Ī momentous collaboration between two (past and future) masters of the horror genre which should perhaps have been made in that particular field, especially since the overall effect (as with most Italian low-grade epics) is somewhat juvenile - unlike either's best work - but also because there are no monsters involved (unlike, say, THE GIANTS OF THESSALY )! Reeves basically single handedly wipes out the persians and the traitors and wins his love interest in the end. Just watching the lovely Demengeot throughout is fun for the male audience. Check out the underwater scenes with Reeve's greeks planting long speared boulders in the water to sink Persian ships. Plenty of action on land and sea and a good wresting match with Reeves and a blubber gut wrestler who feels insulted by Reeves. Along the way a very lovely Mylene Demengeot, a 1960s Angelina Jolie look alike with the big lips becomes his love interest. As such a duo of traitors tries to convince him to team up with the Persians and attempt to lure him with wicked women and seduction.
Reeves is the hero of the olimpic games and a hero to all of Greece. The story concerns the city of Athens and all of Greece being invaded by sea and land by the traitor Darius and his Persian army. Steve Reeves was by far the king of these so called 'sword and sandal' epics churning out of Italy during the late 50s and early 60s.and why not? Reeves had a muscle bulging physique second to none and was by far the best looking of the muscle guys who made these Hercules type films in Italy. Giant of Marathon was made during a very busy 1959 for Steve Reeves, as he completed 'Hercules Unchained', 'The Great White Warrior', and 'Goliath and the Barbarians' while also making Giant of Marathon.