The Avenger (1962)

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Steve Reeves

Enea…

Giacomo Rossi Stuart

Euryalus
(as Giacomo Rossi-Stuart)

Carla Marlier

Lavinia - Latino's Daughter

Mario Ferrari

Latino - King of Latium

Enzo Fiermonte

Acate

Gianni Garko

Turno - King of the Rutuli

Liana Orfei

Camilla - Queen of the Volsci

Nerio Bernardi

Drance

Robert Bettoni

Pallante

Maurice Poli

Mezensio - Turno's Henchman

Lulla Selli

Amata - Latino's Wife

Pietro Capanna

Bisia

Benito Stefanelli

Nisius = Euryalus' Friend

Adriano Vitale

Dancer: Hunter

Augusto Terzoni

Dancer: Deer
(unconfirmed)

Charles Band

Ascanio
(uncredited)

Luciano Benetti

Sergeste
(uncredited)

Emilio Cigoli

Narrator
(uncredited)

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Trivia
The actor playing Niso, Benito Stefanelli, also did some of the stunts, trained the other actors in fencing and choreographed the sword-fights.

Goofs
Early in the movie, an army is seen passing by a maize field; this plant, however, was cultivated in Europe only since 1525, having been brought to the continent by Christopher Columbus.

Crazy credits
Co-screenwriter Albert Band is the sole credited director on English language versions of the film.

Connections
Featured in Kolossal - i magnifici Macisti (1977)

Further adventures of Aeneas and those exiled Trojans

The Avenger covers the story of Aeneas and how he led some survivors of Troy into exile on the Italian peninsula. Steve Reeves repeats his role Aeneas from The Trojan War as the exiled Trojans look to make a new home.

Unfortunately in Etruscan Italy their addition complicates what looks like a delicately balanced situation among a lot of petty kings. One of them covets the land the Trojans have been granted on to settle.

In the tradition of the Trojan War the film is cut above a lot of the Peplum epics that the Italians were churning out in the early 60s, taking advantage of those sets left over from Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis. It's all based on Virgil's Aeneid.

And we get to see more of Steve Reeves physical development. That's what many were plunking their money down to see/