coral and fighting alongside Persian ships. The film had "pre-release" openings in Brooklyn and Long Island on 11 May 1960 before a saturation release in the United States around Memorial Day. It opened in Los Angeles in the week of 20 May 1960 and in New York on 25 May 1960. The film was released in the US as Giant of Marathon and everywhere else as Battle of Marathon. The film was very successful at the box office: according to MGM records the film earned $1,335,000 in the US and Canada and $1.4 million elsewhere resulting in a profit of $429,000. Kine Weekly called it a "money maker" at the British box office in 1960. See also The Film Crew - Former MST3K members Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson and Bill Corbett that riffed on the 1959 film Hercules Unchained, another 1959 Steve Reeves film also riffed by MST3K References Footnotes Sources External links 1959 films 1950s adventure drama films 1950s historical adventure films Classical war films 1950s Italian-language films English-language French films English-language Italian films 1950s English-language films Films directed by Jacques Tourneur Greco-Persian Wars Peplum films Films set in ancient Greece Titanus films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films set in the 5th century BC Films set in the Mediterranean Sea Sword and sandal films Cultural depictions of Darius the Great 1959 drama films 1950s multilingual films Italian multilingual films French multilingual films 1950s Italian films