Basically, Hannibal won the battles that would have won the Punic wars for Carthage, BUT the Carthaginian politicians refused to capitalize on his victories and allowed Rome to continue on to win the war in the end, resulting in the complete destruction of Carthage. Hannibal didn’t lose the war, the Carthaginian politicians lost the war. That had to be one Hell of a bitter pill for Hannibal to swallow. Because he offered them the Roman Empire on a plate, and they refused it, to their own destruction.
Hard to say. The Romans were warriors at heart, they would rather fight Hannibal to the last Roman than to surrender. In war, it 's the one who are more willing to fight that would win, the Carthaginians couldn't afford that.
I had seen this movie when I was a teenager, good to have found it again here….thank you for sharing…..today’s films just don’t cut it for me, many lack depth of character and story, too much CGI and now AI intelligence, plus I’m tired of listening to sexual overtones and 😮 foul mouthed language in them….it does nothing to make the story better nor for a good romantic story, it becomes less appealing. ❤️🙏🏼🥰
I remember seeing this ! I was 12 y/o, in 7th grade, 2nd semester. Watching it now--------wow-----time is really a funny thing.---Mature was not Olivier, but he had presence---MJL, 77 y/o
Thanks to whoever found this good print of an old movie. Most from this era are bad; the 1962 Cornel Wilde movie, CONSTANTINE AND THE CROSS, is unwatchable. These are all mostly fiction, ignore their tiny bits of history and you'll enjoy it more. They were called "peplum" and were made following the success of the Steve Reeves HERCULES movies from the late 1950s. They hired Victor "the Hunk" Mature to play Hannibal. .It was one of his last movies and I think this one and DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS are his best. RIP Vic, a good guy in real life they say.
Thank You! Action Hannibal Staffs. I’m, The Puritans Church Pastor. Fisher Yang Remember John 3:16 “For GOD So Loved The World That He Gave His One And Only Son, That Whoever Believes In Him Shall Not Perish But Have Eternal Life.!!!!!!! Merry 🎄 Christmas 2023!!!
there was a north african elephant distinct from normal african large elephant but the romans used them in the arenas later years [extinct] so had to use asina ones....more docile than african ones of today
They were African elephants trained by africans. Because hannibal and his father named hamilcar were ethiopian. King macinaceus the king of Numidia was black ethiopian and BEGGED and was arranged to marry hannibals ethiopian niece. He was a moor. He could not marry her and he felt betrayed and immediately joined scipio africanus in the battle of zama in 202ad. Hannibal lost this final battle and africa was renamed AFRICA. It was originally called alkebulan. The new Denzel Washington movie about hannibal is coming out and will immediately change the word why???? Because this Carthage history shows the blacks beginning the Italian race….it shows Egypt being ethiopian black for 20k+ years. That backlash destroys Islam overnight. Because the first Arabs were kushite blacks. Extremely brutal people then.
im extremely good at history but didnt know that thanks for the input besides history i also collect model soldiers and tanks have a huge collection even republic romans but empire is main collection ww2 biggest and american civil war next@@harvardarchaeologydept3799
@@harvardarchaeologydept3799 My point was that the elephants used in the movie appear to be Asian elephants (small ears and tusks) I don't know what you are on about. I don't care about who was black. Besides, from what I know and I may be wrong, if the human race originated in Africa, we were probably all black at one time and change colour with the migration and eventual change in climate conditions.
@@claudemaassen2963 no buddy. You gotta know your history. Arabs are caucasian. The arab tells your story he is your brother. Arab history you were in the caucus mountains in europe. You can’t be born in africa outdoors today you’ll burn in the sun from birt. Suntanning is death for you. That’s why the scientists say you’re not from africa. That climate you need melanin because it’s the EQUATOR.
@@rmp7400 Well, the point is that Hollywood took artistic license to transform a war-adventure movie into a romance to appeal to the ladies in the audience. Historically, I don’t think we really know much of anything about Hannibal’s romantic interludes. Victor Mature was a huge romantic draw for the ladies in the theatres.
It was sexy in those days... remember Elvis? (who copied the Tony Curtis look, btw...) In the 1970s, unkempt long hair on men seemed sexy Fashions change... Today, even everyday bald men can seem sexy ( a guy does not have to have the charisma of Yul Brynner)
Victor Mature wanted to join a golf club. The club said they don't accept actors... his answer I am not an actor and have hu dfedcs of critical reviews to support that
They schold have renamed this amazing movie with Hannibal the knankler!! There's alot of ker knanklering in this movie! Those swords and shields must have been made of tin!
they got the equipment wrong and facts canae battle was thought on the plain and roman shields then were oval later empire rectangular , also the elephants had towers on them didnt ride bareback plus most of the elephants crossed the alps but died of disease hannibal rode the last one not one for true facts this movie
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Perhaps with maturity on my part now there are some elements that do not really mesh well.. Historically Hannibal was Carthaginian from the city of Carthage an important trading rival to ancient Rome, in what is now modern day Tunisia, in North Africa. As such historians agree that it is logical that Hannibal used African Elephants. Not the INDIAN Elephants used in this film. The Indian sub-species is noticeably smaller than it's African counterpart and has a more pronounced domed shape to the cranium. However the most notable difference is undoubtedly that the African elephant has far Larger Ears than the Asian variants..Has anyone else been struck the the number of times we saw some of Hannibal's infantry slip and lose their footing on tortuous narrow mountain paths, before plunging to their death, hundreds of feet below. However none of the elephants, massive and cumbersome though they maybe and as I recall, only one of the unfortunate horses met the same fate. Perhaps 1950's audiences were less distracted by anomalies and just prepared to accept whatever Hollywood dished up...?
At 1.15 they had the romans covered with archers, hiding in the bushes, what do they do let off a salvo of arrows and kill them all, no they go with swords and the romans escape
I see that Hollywood is making a blockbuster Hannibal this year but Hannibal is Black. Its going to be Denzel Washington. Not only is he the wrong color but he is about 50 years too old as well.
Yes he was African, but not all Africans are black if that is what you mean? The Carthaginians were descended from the Phoenicians of the Levant and were of Semitic ethnicity. Like the majority of people of the near east and North Africa today.
Well nobody consulted a history text before writing this but who cares, it is Victor Mature - beefcake at its finest. I believe it was he who said, when denied membership to a posh club because he was an actor, "I'm not an actor and I have 64 films to prove it". He was also a WW2 USCG veteran. Not keen on his musicals but like everything else.
Even the bad classic movies are better than anything made today. Yesterdays crap is today's treasure. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Everything produced today seems to be pushing a very strong agenda.
Hanniball was a big movie. .Mountain climbing scenes are very brilliant.
Didn't look like Hamnibal the Black
Basically, Hannibal won the battles that would have won the Punic wars for Carthage, BUT the Carthaginian politicians refused to capitalize on his victories and allowed Rome to continue on to win the war in the end, resulting in the complete destruction of Carthage.
Hannibal didn’t lose the war, the Carthaginian politicians lost the war. That had to be one Hell of a bitter pill for Hannibal to swallow. Because he offered them the Roman Empire on a plate, and they refused it, to their own destruction.
Funny in two thousand years nothing ever changes?
@@keithmartland6463 We’re changing things for the worse! 😂
Hard to say. The Romans were warriors at heart, they would rather fight Hannibal to the last Roman than to surrender. In war, it 's the one who are more willing to fight that would win, the Carthaginians couldn't afford that.
I had seen this movie when I was a teenager, good to have found it again here….thank you for sharing…..today’s films just don’t cut it for me, many lack depth of character and story, too much CGI and now AI intelligence, plus I’m tired of listening to sexual overtones and 😮 foul mouthed language in them….it does nothing to make the story better nor for a good romantic story, it becomes less appealing. ❤️🙏🏼🥰
I agree with you about the foul language and suggestive scenes. As a retired educator of History/Museum Studies, I agree with you.
A very good movie! 👍 👍
Thanks! 🙏
Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. All good.
I remember seeing this ! I was 12 y/o, in 7th grade, 2nd semester. Watching it now--------wow-----time is really a funny thing.---Mature was not Olivier, but he had presence---MJL, 77 y/o
I remember reading that everyone in Hollywood loved working with Vic Mature. He was generous and kind to others.
Oliver would have been a bad Hannibal.
It's obvious, that 99% of the dialogue was dubbed. Oh well ------the " Spaghetti Western " got us used to that. No big deal. --------------MJL, 77 y/o
i LOVE. these films
Many happy happy very good years further on. Best wishes.
Thanks to whoever found this good print of an old movie. Most from this era are bad; the 1962 Cornel Wilde movie, CONSTANTINE AND THE CROSS, is unwatchable. These are all mostly fiction, ignore their tiny bits of history and you'll enjoy it more. They were called "peplum" and were made following the success of the Steve Reeves HERCULES movies from the late 1950s. They hired Victor "the Hunk" Mature to play Hannibal. .It was one of his last movies and I think this one and DEMETRIUS AND THE GLADIATORS are his best. RIP Vic, a good guy in real life they say.
Thank you very much for sharing. All the best. Good luck.
always Love Victor Mature when he Act.
This is a good old movie. Africa was colored and the Elephant is wrong too. But it's make believe.Thanks. Wish you could be us.Thanks again.
African is black and mixed race. But I get you.
Victor Mature👍.
Havent herd the word rubish for a long long time you must be english .well carry on englishmen
Thank You! Action Hannibal Staffs. I’m, The Puritans Church Pastor. Fisher Yang Remember John 3:16 “For GOD So Loved The World That He Gave His One And Only Son, That Whoever Believes In Him Shall Not Perish But Have Eternal Life.!!!!!!! Merry 🎄 Christmas 2023!!!
The opening panorama of Rome is historically inaccurate. Neither the Colosseum nor the Circus Maximus had yet been constructed in 218 BC!
Hollywood...
is not founded upon Truth
(important to keep in mind...)
I would have thought that the elephants would be African elephants and not Asian elephants
there was a north african elephant distinct from normal african large elephant but the romans used them in the arenas later years [extinct] so had to use asina ones....more docile than african ones of today
They were African elephants trained by africans. Because hannibal and his father named hamilcar were ethiopian. King macinaceus the king of Numidia was black ethiopian and BEGGED and was arranged to marry hannibals ethiopian niece. He was a moor. He could not marry her and he felt betrayed and immediately joined scipio africanus in the battle of zama in 202ad. Hannibal lost this final battle and africa was renamed AFRICA. It was originally called alkebulan. The new Denzel Washington movie about hannibal is coming out and will immediately change the word why???? Because this Carthage history shows the blacks beginning the Italian race….it shows Egypt being ethiopian black for 20k+ years. That backlash destroys Islam overnight. Because the first Arabs were kushite blacks. Extremely brutal people then.
im extremely good at history but didnt know that thanks for the input besides history i also collect model soldiers and tanks have a huge collection even republic romans but empire is main collection ww2 biggest and american civil war next@@harvardarchaeologydept3799
@@harvardarchaeologydept3799 My point was that the elephants used in the movie appear to be Asian elephants (small ears and tusks) I don't know what you are on about. I don't care about who was black. Besides, from what I know and I may be wrong, if the human race originated in Africa, we were probably all black at one time and change colour with the migration and eventual change in climate conditions.
@@claudemaassen2963 no buddy. You gotta know your history. Arabs are caucasian. The arab tells your story he is your brother. Arab history you were in the caucus mountains in europe. You can’t be born in africa outdoors today you’ll burn in the sun from birt. Suntanning is death for you. That’s why the scientists say you’re not from africa. That climate you need melanin because it’s the EQUATOR.
Hannibal! A big, handsome man comes to Italy 🇮🇹 looking for a fight ⚔️, but finds love ❤️ in this epic romantic adventure!
A handsome...POWERFUL.... man😎
@@rmp7400 Well, the point is that Hollywood took artistic license to transform a war-adventure movie into a romance to appeal to the ladies in the audience. Historically, I don’t think we really know much of anything about Hannibal’s romantic interludes. Victor Mature was a huge romantic draw for the ladies in the theatres.
Hi guys can we be friends
Yes I saw this as a kid but rewatching it now OMG Victor Matures greasy looking pompadour hairstyle didn’t realize they had Brylcreem in those days
I used to use liberal amounts of Halca on my pompadour.
It was sexy in those days...
remember Elvis? (who copied the Tony Curtis look, btw...)
In the 1970s, unkempt long hair on men seemed sexy
Fashions change...
Today, even everyday bald men can seem sexy ( a guy does not have to have the charisma of Yul Brynner)
My grandfather used Brylcreem, my father uses it and now I use it! :-)
In ancient times they used beeswax and olive oil
Victor Mature was a United States Marine.
He served in WWII.
Victor Mature wanted to join a golf club. The club said they don't accept actors... his answer I am not an actor and have hu dfedcs of critical reviews to support that
Italian epic adventure using
American star to sell it worldwide!
Well....at least ....
Victor Mature was the SON of an Italian😁
It’s a Roman epic. Italy wasn’t even a name then . Fact.
A reconstruction obviously
Made by Italians impersonating
Romans!
I.love.this.movie
watched this movie when I was 13years old
The men are climbing the mountains and the elephants are taking a path.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22
That are little Romans than in thise dimensions
That situation is going full steam these days - the "woke" people .
I still love this !
beau film
Très beau✨
At 2mins and 36 seconds they show Rome and magically you see the Colosseum in 218 BC which was not built until 80AD. Mmmmmm.
Don't be difficult....!!.
Just goes to show the dummies don't kno there history; what's worse,neither do we...
Why didn't the Romans try to shoot or spear the elephants? Also, why all the elephants had no tusks?
I doubt this movie was hystorically accurate. Just a handful of people at Cannae?
They schold have renamed this amazing movie with Hannibal the knankler!! There's alot of ker knanklering in this movie! Those swords and shields must have been made of tin!
they got the equipment wrong and facts canae battle was thought on the plain and roman shields then were oval later empire rectangular , also the elephants had towers on them didnt ride bareback plus most of the elephants crossed the alps but died of disease hannibal rode the last one not one for true facts this movie
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and hannibal was a black guy ...
that nazis got nothing right
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Hey , come on man - it's a movie !
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how rotten must someone be to exept lies about the life of someone else ... just for entertainment ...
and think that truth is less amazing ...
only lies likers ... that is rotten ...
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@@gordonlandreth9550 Yup, at least he is not shown as an Asian (ref to Netflix's Cleopatra) :-)
I KNOW THE ANSWERS....BUT I
WANT TO READ
OTHER'S PEOPLE'S OPINIONS.....
FUNNY HIS SOLDIER's IT THIS FLICK .... WERE NOT RIDING THE
ELEPHANTS. .....
AND WHY ONLY HALF
GROWN ELEPHANTS?????
This fight started with the burning of Alexandria.
Alexandria was burned 175 years after Hannibal invaded Rome.
The cheesyness is strong with this snicker a minute flick.
Spaghetti Western a la long ago century😏
"Western"... Are you quite sure about that ?
Aw man, this has got nothing to do with the A-Team. What a swizz.
Perhaps with maturity on my part now there are some elements that do not really mesh well.. Historically Hannibal was Carthaginian from the city of Carthage an important trading rival to ancient Rome, in what is now modern day Tunisia, in North Africa. As such historians agree that it is logical that Hannibal used African Elephants. Not the INDIAN Elephants used in this film. The Indian sub-species is noticeably smaller than it's African counterpart and has a more pronounced domed shape to the cranium. However the most notable difference is undoubtedly that the African elephant has far Larger Ears than the Asian variants..Has anyone else been struck the the number of times we saw some of Hannibal's infantry slip and lose their footing on tortuous narrow mountain paths, before plunging to their death, hundreds of feet below. However none of the elephants, massive and cumbersome though they maybe and as I recall, only one of the unfortunate horses met the same fate. Perhaps 1950's audiences were less distracted by anomalies and just prepared to accept whatever Hollywood dished up...?
Yeah those elephants just scurried up those narrow paths climbing the Alps!😂👍
Ah yes, when I think of ancient generals, I think of Victor Mature 🤣 Eh better than casting John Wayne as Genghis Khan 😇
Why is it Hannible has Indian Elephants & not African elephants??
At 1.15 they had the romans covered with archers, hiding in the bushes, what do they do let off a salvo of arrows and kill them all, no they go with swords and the romans escape
timestamp for cannae?
I see that Hollywood is making a blockbuster Hannibal this year but Hannibal is Black. Its going to be Denzel Washington. Not only is he the wrong color but he is about 50 years too old as well.
Matt Damon would be perfect for the role, a man of European origins playing the role of Hannibal a man of African descent....
Mike Maravich.
مجلس الشيوخ تأسس منذ العهد الروماني وما قبله اي تأسست الديمقراطيه وتعدد الاراء والمشاركه
Hollywood!!!!!
Tarzan in Switzerland!😂😂😂😂
👍😂
Brilliant!!!
Reminded me of Tarzan kissing scene on the floor of UN in a MAD magazine issue. :-)
Those poor elephants are not armoured!
Better with a script
This is totally grim..
Shunk work or fortication .
No dancing girls :(
They would be in films about Egypt..🤔
.or .....Hollywood🙄
This is not the original film
Hannibal was African.
*Phoenician
So is Elon Musk.
Yes he was African, but not all Africans are black if that is what you mean? The Carthaginians were descended from the Phoenicians of the Levant and were of Semitic ethnicity. Like the majority of people of the near east and North Africa today.
Next Shaka Zulu will be played by brad pitt
히타이트왕족한니발 천손족타르타르족거인인간입니다 한니발금강석 거인인간인골 우주에 있는데요
Well nobody consulted a history text before writing this but who cares, it is Victor Mature - beefcake at its finest. I believe it was he who said, when denied membership to a posh club because he was an actor, "I'm not an actor and I have 64 films to prove it". He was also a WW2 USCG veteran. Not keen on his musicals but like everything else.
Indian elephants?
Aren't they majestic Kish?
No hannibal
Ha a Al was black,lol and YES HIS Elaphants were African,lol😂😂😂😂
Watched 29 minutes of this RUBBISH....a total waste of precious time!!
Ol' Liver Lips must've needed money pretty bad to do that flick.
Are you joking? He enjoyed doing costume drama of antiquity!
예수를 알았다.
You live in fantasies i reject your deposit
01:22:00
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I would have thought Hannibal being a Black man😎
More than likely he was Phoenician, Semitic, but it is unknown.
Hannibal was a black African.
The only black man whom occupied Roman by force.
Hannibal was a brother ?
He was North African, not black, and he never occupied Rome.
Septimus Severus did rule Rome and he was also of North African lineage.
Hannibal is a Phoenician and Phoenicians are predominantly white to olive-skinned.
@@gordonlandreth9550 no. some people think all Africans are black.
Hannibal was Black.look at the coins.Came from North Africa.🎉
You are a collector of ancient coins?
@@rmp7400 ?Der
Misrepresentation of hannibal barca ,he was a black man
No, he was of Semitic descent from the Levant.
Wrong.. he wasn't black
Hannibal was black why can he not be portrayed as black?
So viele Qualen für ein Gemetzel ?!
Rumpelnde Bollerwagen auf der Via Apia?