American International Pictures
Directed by Riccardo Freda
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Ex-Tarzan muscleman Gordon Scott here plays Maciste/Samson, who helps out the repressed peasants in 13th century China. He rescues their princess from an impending marriage to an evil warlord. He rings the "bell of freedom", literally, which works them into a revolutionary frenzy. He is killed in the action, but is resurrected by a Buddhist priest as one of the seven miracles (I only counted two or three), causing an earthquake in the process. Shot on leftover sets from Marco Polo, which give it a lavish exotic setting, but Scott still fights a stuffed tiger at one point.
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