So Helen has survived Troy and ends up at the palace in Alexandria where she is the suspect in the assassination of Pharaoh Ramses. Yvonne Furneaux. Her guard, Mark Forest, must fight to save her from being crushed between two huge stone walls for her alleged crime, and it turns out that there's a bigger plot going on. But he's running out of time as she has been drugged and is being prepared to wake up to face her fate. Forest arrives just as the sophisticated contraption is slowly being lowered that would give Helen a slow and extremely excruciating death.
While the sets all pretty impressive, the film still has a cheapness about it, but there are still some very impressive things, particularly a scene with Forest fighting with a man who wants to throw him in a pool of asps and of course the finale where is a large stone is right on top of Furneaux, not really giving her much space to breathe, let alone have time for Forest to be able to easily get her out. This is interesting because it attempts to tie in two different ancient cultures, but obviously the history lesson is far from the truth. A fairly enjoyable time filler that won't tax the viewer's brain, but not one to add to the list of peplum classics either, let alone the great historical epics.
While the sets all pretty impressive, the film still has a cheapness about it, but there are still some very impressive things, particularly a scene with Forest fighting with a man who wants to throw him in a pool of asps and of course the finale where is a large stone is right on top of Furneaux, not really giving her much space to breathe, let alone have time for Forest to be able to easily get her out. This is interesting because it attempts to tie in two different ancient cultures, but obviously the history lesson is far from the truth. A fairly enjoyable time filler that won't tax the viewer's brain, but not one to add to the list of peplum classics either, let alone the great historical epics.