Guest Shot: Fred Savage
May, 2000
Ridley Scott's big-budget Gladiator, on screens this month, brings legitimacy to the often-cheesy sword-and-sandal genre. Fromage aside, we can't get enough of those loincloths and broadswords.Hercules (1959): "Half god, half pagan!" Proto--sex symbol Steve Reeves, the Fifties' Mr. Universe, kick starts the genre with this Italian production. Based way too seriously on the poem Argonautica.Hercules (1983): Lou Ferrigno washes off the green Hulk paint to kick some Greek ass in this latt...
