John, could not the Elley interview be made available on the website a la "Rozsa Reminiscences" etc? With the Julius Caesar section intact.

Incidentally, that "very readable" book, "The Historical Epic", I found frustratingly biased toward Italian pepla--overly studied considerations of films you or I would not trouble to watch on TV on a rainy Saturday afternoon. It's not that the "gods"--B-H, Spartacus, El Cid etc--are exactly overlooked, just that they're not given due space or credit in comparison to, say, "Colossus of Rhodes" and the like. Elley seems more interested in whether specific films covered periods of history that interest him than in the intrinsic merit of the films themselves, which in the case of most pepla is of course nil. Perhaps I should have been forewarned by the cover shot of Steve Reeves in "Hercules Unchained".

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