The Colossus of Rhodes (film)

Il Colosso di Rodi English title The Colossus of Rhodes is a 1961 Italian sword and sandal film directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Rory Calhoun, it is a fictional account of the island of Rhodes during its Classical period in the late third century before coming under Roman control, using the Colossus of Rhodes as a backdrop for the story of a war hero who becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow a tyrannical king one by Rhodian patriots and the other by Phoenician agents.

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 statues mastermind, Carete Flix Fernndez, 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 Serses evil secondincommand, Thar Conrado San Martn. He has Phoenician soldiers smuggled into Rhodes as slaves, and his men occupy the Colossus to secure safe entrance for the Phoenician fleet. ........

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