These old Italian S&S movies are awesome . They were made with style and panache . I saw them but remember very little ( 12yrs. Old ) so this is like a new movie . Picture is so clear and sharp . Thank You for the post .
Two movies with STEVE REEVES and EDY VESSEL were released in 1961: The Thief of Baghdad and The Trojan Horse John Drew Barrymore (father of Drew Barrymore) as Ulysses "Tales of Brave Ulysses" is a song released in 1967 by British group "Cream" and composed by Eric Clapton. You're welcome
This was just an AWESOME find for me today...so happy to have taken the time to watch it. One of the few Steve Reeves films I hadn't seen yet...which I sooo enjoyed back in my younger years during the 70's. No green screen...real filming and tons of extra's. Sure miss those days, back when the world made more sense. HOO-YAH & God Bless the actors efforts of yesteryear...!
@@andrewfranklin2389 oh yeah a fave with Richard Egan!! saw it at the theater with my 67 YO aunt - in her attempt to get to know me better [my parents died 2 years prior, she was my 'legal Guardian', neither of us knew anything about the other, I was a 'handful'] am a long time history buff & really enjoyed the movie, later discovered its' true roots in Grecian history AT SCHOOL! haven't seen that version in many years...'nuf said, ALOHA 4 now.....🙃😉😊
Steve Reeves appearance is so unbelievably perfect. He is so incredibly young, his hair is so full and black and his features so clean and his body so idealized. Callum von Moger came so incredibly close to being another Steve Reeves, but he did not want it. Steve was truly one of a kind.
A spectacular and very well produced sword n sandals epic from the Olde Days, when everything had to be done for real. Very impressive sets and costumes too. I can't help wondering with so many hunky men in extremely short tunics, whether anyone dared to go on set commando or not ! Those bloopers would be very interesting I expect !
... also have seen this good film since teenager ... now is a chance to see this good film with fully understanding dialogue... and with a bit knowing of history... . Thank you very much for showing this film ... .
Amazing movie . All the extras and all the horses . Where did they get all these horses from . Amazing . Don’t make them like this anymore unfortunately
steve reeves was not the first mr olympia. that was larry scott. reeves never took part in an olympia as it was not in existence while he was bodybuilding.
Legend has it that Aeneas (Steve Reeves) fled with a few Trojan refugees into the Aegean and after many trials landed on the shores of Italy where some say he founded the early settlement where the future Rome was born. His son being named Ascanius.
Correct. Later on he went proposing to Dido queen of Carthage. They had a romance but she never agreed to marry him. Dido was forced to accept marrying a Berber king, she preferred to commit suicide. Tragic ending of the queen that founded Carthage. Romulus founded Rome. He was a descendent of Trojan blood. Him and his brother Remus were abandoned, their parents were killed. The legend say that a she wolf adopted them and fed them, Rome situation was chosen because it was protected by the 7 hills. Rome's biggest nemesis was Hannibal of Carthage. Beautiful stories of ancient Rome and how it came to be.
The people you mentioned became what history calls the Etruscan empire, which was absorbed into the later Roman empire. Today these people still have a great cultural identity in the Roma (gypsy) of today.
Beautiful Juliette Mayniel played Circe to Bekim Fehmiu's Ulysses in the Italian mini-series "L'Odissea". She's also one of Charles Denner's victims in "Landru" (a.k.a. "Bluebeard").
Italian movies: everybody cry ata once. But it has Steve Reeves!!! Such movies are the Italians’ westerns. Reeves’ voice was never heard in any of the many spectacles in which he starred, although he was the highest paid actor in Europe for about a decade.
This Achilles doesn't look that threatening. I forget how he's described in the Illiad. I do like they pay attention to a lot more characters here than just Hector, Paris and Achilles.
The "Achilles" in a little earlier film called "Helen of Troy" played by the English actor Stanley Baker was more fearsome than the one portrayed in this film.
The scenes with the soldiers at the wall...I half-expected lines like, "...and your mother smelt of elderberries!" And "Is there someone else we can talk to?"
The actual site of Troy enclosed only the homes of the elite; most Trojans lived outside the safety of the main walls. Archeologists like Manfred Kaufmann found some evidence pointing to this.
When your in a siege you have limited food supplies, why those besieging you have time to still raid and look for food across the countryside. You would have an advantage holding off when they attack but if the enemy waits you out, the most surefire way to end a siege for the defenders is to go out and face them....risky yes but if you go out to combat and win, then the battle is over.
@ 26:51, she is Helen whose face had launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium. Helen was portrayed by Italian actress Edy Vessel.
Troys story isnt done yet cause Anaeus begins and becomes the founder of alba but he's descendants centuries later Romulus will begin the Journey and be the founder of one of the most powerful civilizations that will one day becomes an Empire and rules half the know world from the east to west THAT CIVILIZATION IS ROME
Oral history was common practice in ancient times. Homer, the author of the Iliad, visited many taverns and actually wrote down the stories recited by the troubadours for the tavern patrons. By that time, the Trojan War occurred at least 500 years before.
also ajax did not die at troy. nor did diomedies. in the movie they have aeaneas killing both greek heroes which didnt happen. besides there is no way aeaneas could defeat ajax in battle.
The "real" Iliad story hero was Achilles, not Aeneas, but in movies, the hero is the one who survives. In real history, Troja has destroyed twice in that period (1250-1177 BC) most likely with Greek and Agean involvement. Wilusa (Troja's real name in that period) was an ally of the mighty Hittite empire. Both Troy and this empire did not survive the end of the Bronze Age.
@@trinihammer Yes, seems to be plausible. The epic poem Aeneid, written by Virgil introduces this idea. However, it is also plausible that some Aegeans settled in Italy after Late Bronze Age Collapse (a few decays after the Trojan War, the real one, documented in the Hittite archives). For example, the Etruscan language is similar to the ancient language from the Agean island of Lemnos, very close to Troy.
@@tudorm6838 Etruscan like Basque and the Lemnos languages most likely belonged to a language family that stammed from Neolithic times before Indoeuropean spread over Europe. The Trojans spoke one of the Indoeuropean languages called Luwian and in no way related to Etruscan. The whole Aeneid sage is as historical as Tolkiens Lord of the Rings and most likely created by Virgil to tie Augustus with the pillar of culture the Illiad and Troy sagas. The Julian family claimed direct decent from Aeneas by his son Jullus and there by from Venus.
9:32 "why the pharao from egypt has not sent troops to help us?" "he couldn't, seems like he's busy with the plagues brought by some hebrew magician..." seriously i wonder why these films avo9id the mithological elements of the odissey, i mean, the gods and monsters appeared here too...
I thought Paris was supposed to be a handsome youth. I guess Italy couldn't find one. And Helen was supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world. What happened here?
First, the ten years of war did a number of them... Second, a good point this movie made on where its characters of Paris and Helen, this seems the best representation of them compared to the legend.
The ending is historically accurate. Rome was founded by the survivors of the Trojan people. This, according to Livy, Book One, which I just finished describes the founding of Rome. Hundreds of years later Greece was crushed by the Romans. It's bittersweet because of all the suffering and hardships throughout these thousands of years. If there is a lesson to be learned here it's that the defeated will one day re-emerge and dispense a sort of justice to the defeaters. This could and should happen to the unjustly disparaged of WWII. It may take some time.
Evandros and the son of Pallas in Greek mythology was a legendary hero from Arcadia, who brought to Italy the Greek twelve gods, the laws and the alphabet. He founded the city of Palladion and is the inhabitant of the Palatine Hill in Ancient Rome sixty years before the Trojan War began. The ancient Romans believed that he was the one who brought the Greek worship of the gods to Italy (e.g. worship of Pan, Lupercalia) The Evandros was worshiped as a deity after his death with an altar built in his honor on the Aventine hill. Strabo writes that according to old legends, Rome is an Arcadian colony inhabited by Evandros Virgil mentions Evandros in Aeneid 8-11
Hi Paul, we do understand Italian very well, believe us ;) Unfortunately, the titles are not always litteraly translated and, in this case, if you check on IMDb, you'll find out that the USA title is The Trojan Horse :)
These old Italian S&S movies are awesome . They were made with style and panache . I saw them but remember very little ( 12yrs. Old ) so this is like a new movie . Picture is so clear and sharp . Thank You for the post .
This is really good .... and well made too! It’s live theatre ! No CGI! No green screen ! No computers . Just hundreds of extras!
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Yeah, pretty good. Even the dubbing into English was good.
Killer costumes too.
Mo IiMj, can TT
Two movies with STEVE REEVES and EDY VESSEL were released in 1961:
The Thief of Baghdad and The Trojan Horse
John Drew Barrymore (father of Drew Barrymore) as Ulysses
"Tales of Brave Ulysses" is a song released in 1967 by British group "Cream" and composed by Eric Clapton.
You're welcome
This was just an AWESOME find for me today...so happy to have taken the time to watch it.
One of the few Steve Reeves films I hadn't seen yet...which I sooo enjoyed back in my younger years during the 70's.
No green screen...real filming and tons of extra's.
Sure miss those days, back when the world made more sense.
HOO-YAH & God Bless the actors efforts of yesteryear...!
If you liked this, go find the 1962 version of the 300 Spartans.
@@andrewfranklin2389 oh yeah a fave with Richard Egan!! saw it at the theater with my 67 YO aunt - in her attempt to get to know me better [my parents died 2 years prior, she was my 'legal Guardian', neither of us knew anything about the other, I was a 'handful'] am a long time history buff & really enjoyed the movie, later discovered its' true roots in Grecian history AT SCHOOL! haven't seen that version in many years...'nuf said, ALOHA 4 now.....🙃😉😊
Excellent quality, these were the movies that filled my Saturday matinees at the movie theater.
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A great Italian film of the sword and sandals genre. With Steve Reeves in one of his best roles.
This movie is cheap trash
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Yup...I really enjoyed it...!
:D
Every Steve Reeves movie I've seen from the fifties and sixties on dvd is the best
Steve Reeves will forever remain a model of a Geek worrier and for all bodybuilders
Steve Reeves Will Forever Remain A!Model Of A!Greek!Worrier!And For All BODYBUILDERS!Nibras!
He has a perfect body built better than terminator
Enei is thracian worrior as all troyans! This Thracians vs Greeks in this war!
Warrior. - Steve Reeves plays Aeneas, a Trojan, not a Greek - but Steve Reeves also made a great Hercules!
Steve Reeves appearance is so unbelievably perfect. He is so incredibly young, his hair is so full and black and his features so clean and his body so idealized. Callum von Moger came so incredibly close to being another Steve Reeves, but he did not want it. Steve was truly one of a kind.
I enjoyed his Hercules movies.
Steve Reeves (1926-2000) was the inspiration for Arnold Schwarzenegger (b. 1947) to claim the title of the world champion bodybuilder in 1970.
@@TheDejael I didn't know that. That's awesome.
Awesome movie!!! I love these old school classics, especially with Steve Reeves!!!
I love these movies
Meet Steve Reeves in Acapulco, Mexico. Back in 1977 when buddy builders were competing n Steve was the judge. I told him I am a huge fan.
Forgot to mention Arnold schwarnegger and lou ferrigo were present.
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@@petersclafani4370 was he as aesthetic in real life as in pictures?
For a so-called B movie these sets and costumes are beautifully done.
Love these old movies
Great way to spend my day off.... binge-watching these Steve Reed movies 🎬!
A spectacular and very well produced sword n sandals epic from the Olde Days, when everything had to be done for real. Very impressive sets and costumes too. I can't help wondering with so many hunky men in extremely short tunics, whether anyone dared to go on set commando or not ! Those bloopers would be very interesting I expect !
If soundtrack from 2004 was added in
Treachery made Greece win over Troy through the entrance of the Trojan horse that had kept the intruders . Very nice movie Thanks for sharing
hence beware of Greeks bearing gifts
Troy should have had the first burning man festival
... also have seen this good film since teenager ... now is a chance to see this good film with fully understanding dialogue... and with a bit knowing of history... . Thank you very much for showing this film ... .
A awesome movie with Steve Reeves and the Greek armor was awesome.
The casting of the actor who plays Achilles is ludicrous!
yeah achilles was a very young person with blonde hair.
Amazing movie . All the extras and all the horses . Where did they get all these horses from . Amazing . Don’t make them like this anymore unfortunately
The Trojan Horse just whacked my computer the other day. It still wreaks havoc after all these years 🙂
Steve Reeves = Greek God
Ugh. Achilles looks way too old and febrile.
Steve Reeves! The first Mr. Olympia and Mr. America! I like his uniform! That helmet is awesome!
Mr America, Universe, and World. No Mr Olympia Steve had retired from bodybuilding long before the Olympia
steve reeves was not the first mr olympia. that was larry scott. reeves never took part in an olympia as it was not in existence while he was bodybuilding.
Now this is when movie where good this is when movie where great
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Trojan guard: "Impressive horse. Sure, I'll sign for that." 😁🤣
Hadn't seen this film in several years! A mighty epic indeed. Thanks for posting!
15:51 “Go your way grey beard before I send you to Hades.”
18:15 I think spiked Sandles are in order.
Legend has it that Aeneas (Steve Reeves) fled with a few Trojan refugees into the Aegean and after many trials landed on the shores of Italy where some say he founded the early settlement where the future Rome was born. His son being named Ascanius.
It was good to see another Trojan legend besides Priam, Hector and Paris. I've only ever just really watched Troy.
ÁDDÀ
Correct. Later on he went proposing to Dido queen of Carthage. They had a romance but she never agreed to marry him. Dido was forced to accept marrying a Berber king, she preferred to commit suicide. Tragic ending of the queen that founded Carthage. Romulus founded Rome. He was a descendent of Trojan blood. Him and his brother Remus were abandoned, their parents were killed. The legend say that a she wolf adopted them and fed them, Rome situation was chosen because it was protected by the 7 hills. Rome's biggest nemesis was Hannibal of Carthage. Beautiful stories of ancient Rome and how it came to be.
Romulas and Remus also where supposed to have been of royal Trojan blood.
The people you mentioned became what history calls the Etruscan empire, which was absorbed into the later Roman empire. Today these people still have a great cultural identity in the Roma (gypsy) of today.
Beautiful Juliette Mayniel played Circe to Bekim Fehmiu's Ulysses in the Italian mini-series "L'Odissea". She's also one of Charles Denner's victims in "Landru" (a.k.a. "Bluebeard").
this is better than the movie trojan with CGI.
22:03 Even Steve's walk has grace!
This was one four star first class movie.
I cant imagine what one of these great old classics would cost in todays dollar,,,thanks for sharing
I like to watch classic movies like this...❤
Italian movies: everybody cry ata once. But it has Steve Reeves!!! Such movies are the Italians’ westerns. Reeves’ voice was never heard in any of the many spectacles in which he starred, although he was the highest paid actor in Europe for about a decade.
16:52 "This tripod of purest gold..." that is, some prop we found in the back of the warehouse after looking around for 40 seconds.
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This Achilles doesn't look that threatening. I forget how he's described in the Illiad. I do like they pay attention to a lot more characters here than just Hector, Paris and Achilles.
The "Achilles" in a little earlier film called "Helen of Troy" played by the English actor Stanley Baker was more fearsome than the one portrayed in this film.
@@hughcapetien oh yeah. I liked "Helen of Troy". I thought it was entertaining.
He died extremely young, upper mid twenty, in the Illiad, this actor playing him, looks very old and weakly. My two cents.
@@achillesmanterra2023 But Achilles had a son
@@outis439-A Yes, aaand ?
Anything whit Steve in it is good period
The scenes with the soldiers at the wall...I half-expected lines like, "...and your mother smelt of elderberries!" And "Is there someone else we can talk to?"
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Splendid costumes and filmset superb scenery A very enjoyable watch
Brilliant movie 😃
Another great Steve reeves the greatest bodybuilder of all time
Closer to the Bronze Age war and
Troy than most Hollywood overproductions or Black Achilles.
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I'll take some Steve Reeves on rye. Hold the mustard - Mae West
A good movie , but the background music is a mess.
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Evergreen classic movies.
Steve reeves was a strong bodybuilder at that time
Never understood why the people of Troy left their fortress to combat the Greeks. You have the advantage...let them come to you.
I think they saw an opportunity to bring a quick end to the decade-long battle with Achilles sitting out.
The actual site of Troy enclosed only the homes of the elite; most Trojans lived outside the safety of the main walls. Archeologists like Manfred Kaufmann found some evidence pointing to this.
When your in a siege you have limited food supplies, why those besieging you have time to still raid and look for food across the countryside. You would have an advantage holding off when they attack but if the enemy waits you out, the most surefire way to end a siege for the defenders is to go out and face them....risky yes but if you go out to combat and win, then the battle is over.
Great old Movie
Am I the only one looking for the silhouettes of Joel and the Bots at the bottom.......
Just stumbled upon this masterpiece ❤
It was a very good film, I really enjoyed it, thank you.
Steve Reeves always remain best actor an body builder 👍
So much better than the Hollywood version. Closer to the Truth...
Old historical films are allways super
productions.
I love the music.
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@ 26:51, she is Helen whose face had launched a thousand ships and burned the topless towers of Ilium. Helen was portrayed by Italian actress Edy Vessel.
Troys story isnt done yet cause Anaeus begins and becomes the founder of alba but he's descendants centuries later Romulus will begin the Journey and be the founder of one of the most powerful civilizations that will one day becomes an Empire and rules half the know world from the east to west THAT CIVILIZATION IS ROME
Thanks for uploading. Great movie.
Steve Reeves starred as Romulus, Aeneas' descendant who founded Rome, in "Romulus and Remus."
It was called “ Duel of the Titans “ !
Yes Steve Hercules Reeves vs Gordon Tarzan Scott starred in the movie Romulus vs Remus
Oral history was common practice in ancient times. Homer, the author of the Iliad, visited many taverns and actually wrote down the stories recited by the troubadours for the tavern patrons. By that time, the Trojan War occurred at least 500 years before.
let me remind you that Ajax was 6-10 tall and could lift a man with one arm.(this ajax is a bit short)
So was Goliath of Gath and he was brought down with a stone
also ajax did not die at troy. nor did diomedies. in the movie they have aeaneas killing both greek heroes which didnt happen. besides there is no way aeaneas could defeat ajax in battle.
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Awesome Movie hi wish h can see more like this movie and Steve Reeves is something in this move
Gordon Scott was a legend both in Trojan and Roman Movies
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OMG! What happened to Achilles, son of the goddess Thetis? This actor is NOT a mighty warrior.
Is this available for fair use to use clips? Is it in public domain? Who owns the copyright?
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How different history would have been if Troy turned the horse into a burning man like festival.
The "real" Iliad story hero was Achilles, not Aeneas, but in movies, the hero is the one who survives. In real history, Troja has destroyed twice in that period (1250-1177 BC) most likely with Greek and Agean involvement. Wilusa (Troja's real name in that period) was an ally of the mighty Hittite empire. Both Troy and this empire did not survive the end of the Bronze Age.
its an italian film so they made Aeneas the hero because Aeneas is supposed to have founded italy.
@@trinihammer Yes, seems to be plausible. The epic poem Aeneid, written by Virgil introduces this idea. However, it is also plausible that some Aegeans settled in Italy after Late Bronze Age Collapse (a few decays after the Trojan War, the real one, documented in the Hittite archives). For example, the Etruscan language is similar to the ancient language from the Agean island of Lemnos, very close to Troy.
@@tudorm6838 Etruscan like Basque and the Lemnos languages most likely belonged to a language family that stammed from Neolithic times before Indoeuropean spread over Europe. The Trojans spoke one of the Indoeuropean languages called Luwian and in no way related to Etruscan.
The whole Aeneid sage is as historical as Tolkiens Lord of the Rings and most likely created by Virgil to tie Augustus with the pillar of culture the Illiad and Troy sagas. The Julian family claimed direct decent from Aeneas by his son Jullus and there by from Venus.
Steve Reeves would have made an excellent Superman!
I see the movie before but this was different, but Troya desapere for ever. Thanks for 👌
Terrific and great quality though his best film is MORGAN THE PIRATE 1960, but sadly no one shows it.
I have the film, his best to me are Morgan the Pirate, Thief Of Baghdad and Goiliath and the Barbarians
Very good movie
This is probably one of the few Trojan war films where Helen and Paris don’t come off as sympathetic.
and thus the giganticlese size of the Trojan was developed on this movie set
This is a very good movie . Let you know the Trojans could have won. Great version.
This movie is total cheese. Cheap and unconvincing.
@@brucemacmillan7128 Well I could not agree less with you it was a fun movie and better then the new versions of the Trojan War.
@@dunning234I haven't seen a good Trojan war movie yet. They're all pretty bad. If I want a good antiquity drama, I'll watch the HBO-BBC series Rome.
Also, ugh, again with these old movies depicting Greeks wielding those tiny-ass daggers pretending they're swords. Ridiculous.
Achilles is so miscast that it's pitiful.
9:32 "why the pharao from egypt has not sent troops to help us?"
"he couldn't, seems like he's busy with the plagues brought by some hebrew magician..."
seriously i wonder why these films avo9id the mithological elements of the odissey, i mean, the gods and monsters appeared here too...
He was a very handsome guy but in this film he doesn't look all that muscular, that being what he was famous for.
No one would kick sand in his face
A charles atlas type
I thought Paris was supposed to be a handsome youth. I guess Italy couldn't find one. And Helen was supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world. What happened here?
First, the ten years of war did a number of them...
Second, a good point this movie made on where its characters of Paris and Helen, this seems the best representation of them compared to the legend.
Josephine Jobert wasn’t born yet !
I guess Homer got it right! Greek mythology had kept us well entertained after so many centuries!, 😅😅😅
The ending is historically accurate. Rome was founded by the survivors of the Trojan people. This, according to Livy, Book One, which I just finished describes the founding of Rome. Hundreds of years later Greece was crushed by the Romans. It's bittersweet because of all the suffering and hardships throughout these thousands of years. If there is a lesson to be learned here it's that the defeated will one day re-emerge and dispense a sort of justice to the defeaters. This could and should happen to the unjustly disparaged of WWII. It may take some time.
Evandros and the son of Pallas in Greek mythology was a legendary hero from Arcadia, who brought to Italy the Greek twelve gods, the laws and the alphabet. He founded the city of Palladion and is the inhabitant of the Palatine Hill in Ancient Rome sixty years before the Trojan War began. The ancient Romans believed that he was the one who brought the Greek worship of the gods to Italy (e.g. worship of Pan, Lupercalia) The Evandros was worshiped as a deity after his death with an altar built in his honor on the Aventine hill. Strabo writes that according to old legends, Rome is an Arcadian colony inhabited by Evandros
Virgil mentions Evandros in Aeneid 8-11
And nobody saw it coming ?
Oh yeah,
Beware of Greeks
bearing gifts.
🤺💐
Love these old school Italian films
wierd to see Achilles played by a older guy
Steeve Reeves and Drew Barrymore save this mess.
Steve Reeves and John Drew Barrymore Save This Mess!Michelle!
@@jeanbaumgartner4052 ?
Gracias...
Paris is a much less likeable dude than in some other Trojan war films
True, but you sure here what they say about in the novelizations and legends...especially Steven Fry's "Troy"
Just think of the surprise the crowd would have had if Steve hadda pulled the pained face of Steven segal
Trojans became Romans.
I thought that was
a hyena and twins?
🤺💐
the title of this movie is: is the "trojan war" not the trojan horse..... if you understand italian, you would know the translation.
Hi Paul, we do understand Italian very well, believe us ;) Unfortunately, the titles are not always litteraly translated and, in this case, if you check on IMDb, you'll find out that the USA title is The Trojan Horse :)