Monday, August 03, 2020

Movie review - "The Nights of Lucrezia Borgia" (1960) **

 I only watched this for Belinda Lee who plays the title role, predictably horny and villain-y. Lee has a great old time - her angular beauty suits period movies for some reason. She bathes exotically and throws herself at men, even when they're not keen (which only makes her want him more). She's Cleopatra, really - or Poppea, or Messalina or any of them.

The actual star is Jacques Sernas, who was in another Lee movie, The Goddess of Love. He's an acceptible swashbuckler hero, not particularly memorable, at least not to me. He saves a woman from being attacked (she's pretty and docile - the sort of part Lee would've played in England, no wonder she went to Europe).

There's some nice sets and colour, a fair bit of action though it isn't that well done. It's fine.

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