The Battle of Marathon

See also: Battle of Marathon (homonymy), Marathon

the Bataille of Marathon (Battaglia di Maratona) is a film free - Italy N carried out by Jacques Tourneur and left in 1959.

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In 490 before J. - C., Phidippidès, victorious of the Olympic Games, is named chief of the Athenian Crowned Guard. It falls in love with Andromède, the girl of an Athenian dignitary, but it is promised in Théocrite, an ambitious and cheating aristocrat who scheme the return to the capacity of the tyrant Hippias taken refuge at Darius Ier, king of Persians…

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Jacques Tourneur entirely did not carry out this film, its contract having expired before the end of turning. It specified besides: For photography, we had an extraordinary man, Mario Bava, which made a splendid photograph and also excellent models, best than I ever saw.
Rock rebounding - This film obtained an immense success. In 1960, it was placed 3rd at the American boxoffice behind do not eat the daisies (Please don' T eat the Deasies) of Charles Walters and Garçonnière (The Apartment) of Billy Wilder. But it is not, for that, without incongruity. Mylène Demongeot remembers in particular a plan cocasse: The hero, our Steve, is continued by his attackers. He climbs all in top of a mountain and starts with terrible efforts to push large rocks and to balance them on his enemies who must collapse, crushed. One will thus see with the image an enormous rock (in balsa, very light wood), pushed by Steve, all streaming under the effort (Baby Oil), to descend the mountain with grondement terrible (Bruitage), to fall on the head from a soldier and… to rebound gracefully like a table tennis ball! It is large!

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