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Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus

1965 film by Domenico Paolella

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3773176 ↗
Source-derived summary

Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus (Italian: Golia alla conquista di Bagdad, lit. 'Goliath at the Conquest of Baghdad') is a 1965 Italian peplum film directed by Domenico Paolella.

Plot

The king of the Kurds has kidnapped the daughter of the king of Baghdad to blackmail him. Goliath is sent to the rescue.

Cast

Peter Lupus: Goliath (credited as Rock Stevens)

Mario Petri: Yssour

Helga Liné: Fatma

Arturo Dominici: Kaichev

Piero Lulli: Thor

Anna Maria Polani: Myriam

Marino Masé: Phir

Daniele Vargas: Saud

Mino Doro: King Selim

Andrea Aureli: Bhalek

Nello Pazzafini: Horval

Dario Michaelis: Safawidi

Release

Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus was released on 3 March 1965.

Editorial summary

“Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus” enters the record as 1965 film by Domenico Paolella. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Goliath, Conquest and Damascus can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-03-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Goliath, Conquest and Damascus.
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“Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Goliath, Conquest and Damascus provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3773176. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965.

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This entry incorporates text from “Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.