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The ULTIMATE HERO collection pays homage to Saturday afternoon television matinees with a trio of vintage sword-and-sandal epics (low-budget Italian films from the 1950s and `60s that centered around Greco-Roman mythology and featured campily primitive special effects). As a sequel to 1959`s HERCULES, HERCULES UNCHAINED (1960) finds genre stalwart Steve Reeves reprising his role as the legendary hero--this time struggling to restore his memory after being bewitched by a Theban princess. American bodybuilder Reeves also stars in THE GIANT OF MARATHON (1959) as an Athenian warrior who saves his city from an invading Persian army. And in SAMSON AND THE SEVEN MIRACLES OF THE WORLD (1961), Gordon Scott headlines as the hirsute strongman who performs heroic feats to save a Chinese princess from marauding Mongolians.
