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Roger Corman, director and producer (1961), Atlas, cinematic feature (written by Charles Griffin), starring Michael Forest (Atlas), Barboura Morris (Candia), and Frank Wolff (Proximedes). Re-released in 2002 on DVD by Cheezy Flicks.

Called by Jon Solomon "an even worse film than the Italian sequels to the sequels" (p. 128), Atlas continues the expansion of the Hercules/Maciste theme in American cinema. Be that as it may, the film's meager redeeming values may be limited to the fact that it is shot in ruins of Greece (the Acropolis, the reconstructed Stoa of Attalos, Sounion, etc.) rather than (as most sword-and-sandal films) being shot in Italy. Its wild anachronisms make it apparently useless as a mythological adaptation.

Praximenes is the tyrant of a fictional polis (Saronica) who sees the military advantage of highly potent Atlas for breaking his siege of another fictional stronghold (Thenis). The historical mythologization is perhaps interesting. (Note how the Italian poster inserts historical veracity back into the myth "triumphator of ATHENS.")