Sword-and-Sandal Movies - The Next Best Thing to Porn for a Young Gayling

My favorite was Dan Vadis.

R1 Yummy.

So is it true that Todd Armstrong, who played Jason in Jason and the Argonauts, was a big 'mo who ended up contracting AIDS and killing himself?

Joaquin looked beautiful in Gladiator.

Richard Burton in "The Robe"

Jeffrey Hunter in "King of Kings"

Yul Brynner in that godawful "The Ten Commandments"

Henry Wilcoxon in 1934's "Cleopatra" and the actor who played his son in that godawful "The Ten Commandments"

I've never heard of "Son of Samson" or Mark Forest, but after seeing that picture of him and reading about the movie, I'm gonna have to check it out.

R3 It appears to be true.

Ed Fury for me. Always. He gave me many boners as a gayling.

“Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?”

I would sit through these movies just hoping there'd be a butt shot.

R10 I think every young gayling sat in front of the TV trying to catch a glimpse of ass or crotch.

I hope Ben Hur counts because Stephen Boyd is delicious.

Gaylings today are not desperate for a glimpse of manflesh.

reg park, along with the one and only steve reeves, mark forest, miles o'keefe, of course the paul brothers (i.e. the barbarian brothers), gordon scott, alan steel, ed fury, richard harrison, pietro torrisi!....

later ferrigno as hercules, lundgren as he-man...

R14 Pictures, please!

"Gaylings today are not desperate for a glimpse of manflesh."

Yeah, they are. They're just looking at internet porn, they don't need sword-and-sandal movies

Ed Fury is still around at age 94

R17 He was a hottie.

India had a long string of movies like this starring muscle hunk Dara Singh. He always showed his ass, too.

I am young but my Italian dad brought me up with all the old Italian movies about Greek, Roman and Mediterranean history (they called them "peplum") and I was madly in love with Steve Reeves (like Hercules Unchained and especially The Thief of Baghdad).

Cornel Wilde

R21 Cornel has quite the package!

I read the article in OP's post, then found "Son of Samson" on YouTube. God, they're right! That's the gayest movie I've seen in a while.

But damn, Mark Forest was sexy. He was wearing next to nothing in that movie.

Dan Vadis for moi!

Hercules, Samson & Ulysses gave you to two beautiful butts.....and the aforementioned Kirk Morris with curly blond hair as Hercules.

Three characters from three backgrounds, sources in literature, and time periods......but who the fuck cares?

Available on a pretty nice DVD from the Warner Archive collection along with Damon & Pythias......

More fantasy than sword and sandal, but Marc Singer in The Beastmaster

Weirdly these sword/sandal movies did nothing for me. However, I was completely schmitten as a gayling by Marlon Brando in The Young Lions. This was in the late '60s.

Victor Mature in Demetrius and the gladiators

Poor Victor Mature was turned down for membership of the country club because he was an actor. He appealed: "I'm not an actor and have 23 movies to prove that!"

When I was growing up I would watch old B moves on TV. I was probably about ten years old when I saw this sword and sandals classic.

Fastforward to 01:16:54 in this video of The Three Stooges meet Hercules and you will see the exact moment when I turned gay.

R30 I understand why.