Romulus and the Sabines (1961)

★ 5.0 1h 38m IMDb

The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.

Romulus and the Sabines

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Roger Moore
Roger Moore as Romulus Died 2017 · Stockwell, London, England, UK Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray Ian Fleming's fictional secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions/MGM Studios film s...
Mylène Demongeot
Mylène Demongeot as Rea Died 2022 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France Mylène Demongeot (born Marie-Hélène Demongeot; 29 September 1935 – 1 December 2022) was a French film, television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100...
Jean Marais
Jean Marais as Marte Died 1998 · Cherbourg, Manche, France Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), was a French actor and director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Marais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contr...
Rosanna Schiaffino
Rosanna Schiaffino as Venere Died 2009 · Genoa, Italy Rosanna Schiaffino was born on November 25, 1939 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy as Rosa Anna Schiaffino. She was an actress, known for Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963), La sfida (1958) and The Big Night (1959).
Scilla Gabel
Scilla Gabel as Dusia Age 88 · Rimini, Italy She was born Scilla Gabellini, one of five siblings, in Rimini on the Adriatic coast. Scilla initially studied law at Oxford University, graduating with a doctorate. Her interest in pursuing a legal c...
Marino Masé
Marino Masé as Leno Died 2022 · Triestre, Italy Marino Masé (born 21 March 1939) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than 70 films since 1961. Masé was born in Trieste. While still a teenager, he joined the laboratory for young actors of...

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CinemaSerf 5/10 Sep 14, 2025
Roger Moore was clearly engaged enough with this lightweight peplum to bother to do his own (fairly obvious) dubbing but that’s really all there is to say about this remarkably sterile telling of the tale of the search by the Romans for some ladies to help perpetuate their population. The city of Rome, under Moore’s king Romulus, only had men in it, you see, so he had to try and get hold of some gals from the nearby kingdom of Sabina to sate their increasing ardour. This wasn’t going to be straightforward, though. The Sabines weren’t just going to give their own futures away for the asking by this dashing young man, and so cunning is required. Cunning and theft. Cunning, theft and swordplay. Might this be the start of the Roman thirst for conquest? The film actually has quite decent production standards, but the writing is pretty woeful and there are enough sexual stereotypes here to float them all out along the Tiber and form a nifty little bridge. It’s not so much sword and sandals and togas and tantrums, and the cast of damsels in varying degrees of distress led by their king (Folco Lulli) add a bit of glamour but precious little else as this rumbles along for an overlong hundred minutes with way too much chatter and meandering and nowhere near enough action.

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