Keeping from the Greek Myth only the proper nouns and a vague outline featuring elements of the legend .
Perseus shared with Oedipus a curse: he would kill his grand-father-which he accidentally did in the legend- who had his daughter Danaé imprisoned but did not prevent Zeus from getting her pregnant ; in the sword and sandal,it is represented by the prediction of the queenmom who tells her stepson he would see three spots (on Perseus ' shoulder) before being killed.
Andromeda was to be given to a sea monter (here represented by some kind of cardboard prehistoric saurian) ;the special effects are almost comic :Medusa's eye looks like a car light ,and according to the myth ,she was beheaded and Perseus would use her powers to defeat his enemy ; here the screenplay is not that much dumb: the stone warriors turn to flesh and presto!an army to come to Andromeda 's father .
Andromeda is not to be devoured by a Loch Ness monster ,but to marry vile King Acrisio's son :like father ,like son : the villain ,should one believe the screenwriters ,are always sinister-looking whereas the heroes are virtuous and handsome :here Richard Harrison ,more athletic than muscle-man .Like them ,when the sword and sandal craze fizzled out , he became a secret agent , a la James Bond.
Of course ,the special effects cannot hold a candle to those of more modern versions of the Perseus myth ; but at least , De Martino's (debut) film has a screenplay ,naive and predictable ,but so are those of the versions to come .
Perseus shared with Oedipus a curse: he would kill his grand-father-which he accidentally did in the legend- who had his daughter Danaé imprisoned but did not prevent Zeus from getting her pregnant ; in the sword and sandal,it is represented by the prediction of the queenmom who tells her stepson he would see three spots (on Perseus ' shoulder) before being killed.
Andromeda was to be given to a sea monter (here represented by some kind of cardboard prehistoric saurian) ;the special effects are almost comic :Medusa's eye looks like a car light ,and according to the myth ,she was beheaded and Perseus would use her powers to defeat his enemy ; here the screenplay is not that much dumb: the stone warriors turn to flesh and presto!an army to come to Andromeda 's father .
Andromeda is not to be devoured by a Loch Ness monster ,but to marry vile King Acrisio's son :like father ,like son : the villain ,should one believe the screenwriters ,are always sinister-looking whereas the heroes are virtuous and handsome :here Richard Harrison ,more athletic than muscle-man .Like them ,when the sword and sandal craze fizzled out , he became a secret agent , a la James Bond.
Of course ,the special effects cannot hold a candle to those of more modern versions of the Perseus myth ; but at least , De Martino's (debut) film has a screenplay ,naive and predictable ,but so are those of the versions to come .