The Colossus Of Rhodes

Calhoun leads an army of slaves in revolt against a group of oppressors who use the title edifice as a secret torture chamber and battle fortress. This ludicrous costume epic complete with hambone acting is interesting to film buffs because it is an early work by the king of the spaghetti Westerns, director Sergio Leone. Although Leone himself has labeled the film an impersonal project, his keen, formalistic compositional eye and exciting handling of action sequences are evident. The remarkable structuralized images that are a great part of THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY and ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST are being explored and analyzed in THE COLOSSUS OF RHODES. Le...