Enjoyed this film which was filmed entirely in Cantabria, Spain with a large cast of performers and great photography and plenty of action scenes. This story deals with a Greek war hero who decides to visit the Rhodes Kingdom who have built a huge statue of bronze and stone twenty stories tall in their harbor. Darios, (Rory Calhoun) meets up with a very attractive woman named Diala, (Lea Massari) who enjoys teasing him when he tries to make love to her and she drags him into some very dangerous situations. There is plenty of arrows flying through the air, hot molten lead dropped on people and many secret passages along with plenty of torture chambers and lots of blood and gore. This film runs rather long and it eventually gets rather boring at times, but it is a great film to watch on a dull weekend. Rory Calhoun gave a great performance and I still remember when he appeared in a film called, "The Red House" starring Edward G. Robinston, Judith Anderson, Julie London.
Review of The Colossus of Rhodes
