The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
Directed by Sergio Leone
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
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What critics compared The Colossus of Rhodes to
Italian director Sergio Leone (“Once Upon a Time in The West”/”A Fistful of Dollars”/”The Colossus of Rhodes”) creates a cynical stylish unflinchingly violent spaghetti western that mocks the genre by showing the dark seedy side of the west and with its success became very influential in the western genre.
From his 1961 debut, a kitschy swords and sandals picture called The Colossus of Rhodes, to his final film in 1984, the sprawling gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America, director Sergio Leone seldom dabbled in the discreet.