Maciste
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Maciste is one of the oldest recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from the 1910s to the mi
Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste
Original trade ad for the first of the Maciste silent film series
Bodybuilder Mark Forest played Maciste in the 1961 film Maciste, the Strongest Man in the World
Maciste alpino (1916) aka "Maciste The Warrior"
Cabiria
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Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during the period of the Second Punic War. It follow
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…Triphylia". Makistos was also the third child of Athamas and Nephele, according to the Greek mythology. In the original draft outline of the 1914 movie Cabiria by director Giovanni Pastrone, the muscular hero's name had been Ercole ("Hercules"). In the revised script, writer Gabriele d'Annunzio gave the character…
1914 poster, designed by Leopoldo Metlicovitz
The Temple of Moloch episode, as seen on a poster
Moloch statue from Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria (1914), National Museum of Cinema (Turin)
Cabiria poster portraying the human pyramid scene