Main Cast: Kirk Morris, Laura Brown, Frank Leroy, Alfredo Zammi
Release Year: 1960
Country: US
Run Time: 79 minutes
Plot
Kirk Morris, Laura Brown are top-billed in Colossus and the Headhunters. The title character, played by Morris, barely escapes an earthquake. He then lands on an island overrun with headhunters. In trying to rescue an exiled young queen, Colossus nearly loses his own noggin. Distributed in the US by American-International pictures (and later bundled into Sons of Hercules TV package), Colossus and the Headhunters is perhaps Morris' best sword and sandal flick. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Colossus and the Headhunters, also known in its original Italian title as Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste ("Maciste against the head-hunters"), is a sword and sandal film created in Italy and released in 1960.
In the movie's plot, Maciste arrives on an island only to find it rocked by a catastrophic volcanic eruption... and sinking. The survivors board Maciste's raft, and he pilots it toward a nearby yet unknown island. The group gets captured by a tribe led by Queen Amoa. Her people are under continuous attack by another tribe on the island—a tribe of savage headhunters. Maciste and his survivors decide to help her, so he and some of his friends set out to find Amoa's father. They travel to a ruined castle occupied by the headhunters—which used to be a great city of gold—and find Amoa's father, now blind, imprisoned alone in one of the dungeon rooms by the headhunters. Meanwhile, the leader of the headhunters captures Amoa and decides to marry her by compelling her father to give his blessing. A large battle erupts at Queen Amoa's village when the headhunters attack. During the fight, the headhunter leader abducts Queen Amoa; Maciste pursues them, saves Amoa, fights and defeats the wily leader of the headhunters; having saved the day, Maciste rides away on his raft with Amoa in his arms.
