The Mongols (1961)
Gengis Khan killed by Anita Ekberg!
5 June 2005
Warning: Spoilers
You read well.So if you do not get a good mark for your next history test,it won't be Andre de Toth's fault but yours.

If you do not take it literally,you may find "I mongoli" pleasant,nay entertaining.Jack Palance overplays as hell ,perfectly cast as the villain.The villainess Ekberg matches him,so to speak ,every step of the way.The heroes ,Franco Silva and Antonella Lualdi are Italian cast as Polish pacifists who try to avoid war with the Mongols .Gengis Khan "whose ears cannot hear woman's words" agrees with the good ones.But his son (Palance) is not prepared to accept such a thing ,neither is his slave/lover Ekberg who might have been infuriated by Khan's machismo.

There are tortures aplenty ,floggings galore,stakes,even a nasty little thing called "slow death" .Treasons are here too.Igor is not fair-play during the duel,but he must be forgiven since the hero is obviously stealing his fiancée;Henry de Valois (what is this French doing here?) spills the beans but I'd like to see what you 'd have done ,in that slow death stuff.

The ideal flick after hard labor ,housework or a Godard Movie.Why not?
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