Title: Amusing Bad Film
Product review: Mario Bava's 'Hero of Marathon' is a cheap Italian sword & sandal film presenting a fictional story of Philippides, the Athenian commoner who saves Athens and Greece against Darius in the First Persian War. The film is still amusing to watch despite it being historically inaccurate and of terrible quality.The battle of Marathon was fought on a plain and not a canyon. Unlike Reeves' Phillipedes, the real Phillipedes died upon having delivered his message. The film does have some interesting battle scenes with relatively accurate equipment and tactics but they're pretty cheap. This is certainly not one of the best Italian sword and sandal films to come out of Italy. A good (if not the best) Italian film to watch on Roman history instead of this one is the 1939 film 'Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal' covering the Second Punic War with Carthage and Hannibal.
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