Franco Giacobini

While pursued by a U.S. rival, a greedy Polish mercenary aids a mine worker and peasant girl as they lead a revolution against the Mexican government.

In 1961, director Mario Bava (Rabid Dogs, Kill Baby Kill) turned his hand to the historical adventure genre, capitalising on the recent success of 1958's Kirk Douglas vehicle The Vikings. The result was a colourful, swashbuckling epic of treachery, heroism and forbidden love: Erik the Conqueror.