the island peaceful again. Cast Rory Calhoun – Darios Lea Massari – Diala Georges Marchal – Peliocles Conrado San Martín – Thar Ángel Aranda – Koros Mabel Karr – Mirte Mimmo Palmara – Ares Roberto Camardiel – King Serse Alfio Caltabiano – Creonte George Rigaud – Lissipu Félix Fernández - Carete Production The film was originally meant to star John Derek. However he clashed with Sergio Leone and was replaced by Rory Calhoun. Derek was fired in June 1960. This resulted in a legal case. Leone filmed exterior scenes at the Laredo harbour, Cantabria, the Bay of Biscay, the Manzanares el Real and Ciudad Encantada at Cuenca. Reception According to MGM records the movie made a profit of $350,000. Depiction of the Colossus Although no physical references of the original Helios Colossus are known to exist, the structure is rendered in this film as being an Etruscan image of the god Apollo following the kouros style of sculpture, with a slight “archaic smile.” It is shown to be about 300 feet high (nearly three times the height of its historical counterpart) holding a bowl at chest level with elbows raised outward, straddling each side of the harbor entrance. It is also revealed to be a hollow metal sculpture, much on the same order as the Statue of Liberty, with several interesting features: an interior spiral staircase leading to a second set of stairs at the head of the statue; a chain system that runs practically the height of the statue, which controls sliding doors to a dungeon; permanent openings at the pupils of the eyes and the ears – large enough for a man to pass through; a drawbridge-style door hidden in the center chest that opens to the bowl; the bowl can be filled with burning materials and used as an altar; the fire in the bowl can be dropped on anything beneath by means of a divided trap door on its bottom; and the entire top third of the statue's head has a dodecagonal opening that allows for catapults to be fired out of it. While the statue in the film is shown to be made of iron and burnished brass (or perhaps bronze) and barefoot, barechested and bareheaded, wearing only a short men's Greek-style skirt and a headband, the original poster depicts the statue as highly polished bronze, completely outfitted with Roman sandals and armor, including a