The amazon women from Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)

This Italian Peplum movie is about a muscleman and his companions who are accidentally taken to the land of the Amazon Women, there, they will fight for their freedom and lots of funny scenarios and misadventures involving the men and the amazon warriors will follow. 

Antiope, the first amazon the guys meet.

The amazon civilization is fairly typical, it's a paradisiac greek town with lavish locations, training fields and waterfalls. Of course, some are misandric and dislike men, at least the main antagonist is. 

The antagonistic amazon menaces Colossus.

Antiope (played by Dorian Gray) wants to cooperate with the men but she's opposed by a rival amazon who doesn't. The queen is undecided and wants to test their theories as she feels rather lonely and unloved without the company of males.

Likes men.

Doesn't like men. Simple.

We have great costumes for the amazons, some slightly comedic moments and fun fights, not so much with the ladies, most of the punching is done by the males and the amazons only have a few unconvincing and soft fight sequences near the end of the film. 

Antiope ready for her battle.

The amazons training place.

It's obviously dated to a baffling degree, with some really sexist and homophobic ideas. However, because of its light tone we are also presented with some physical comedy and defined personalities for the female warriors, something not seen very often in these movies as most tend to be generic damsels in distress. Also, because it's such a silly movie we can't really take it too seriously. 

The amazons kick butt in this movie... literally.

They also bite butts.

Most of the film follows the evil amazon planning to take down the men and Antiope by any means, there are also evil bandits who fight the amazons, the queen and Antiope romance the males, eventually the guys and Colossus win the day and the hearts of the amazons. Predictable.

The warriors choosing their men.

Defeating a peplum muscle man isnt an easy task, so these girls are very powerful.

They make good use of their bows and arrows.

This was a great chance to see a good amazon portrayal that wasn't about them needing men or dealing with love but I guess it was too much to ask for at the time. Wasted potential on that side but it still features some good concepts that should be seen more in adventure movies.

See all of their scenes here: