Peplum (film genre)
（重定向自Sword and Sandal）
![This poster from a 1962 Maciste film illustrates many people's expectations from films of this genre.](/Images/godic/202502/14/Maciste-MarkForest2730.jpg")
The peplum film (pepla plural), also known as sword-and-sandal, is a genre of largely Italian-made historical or biblical epics (costume dramas) that dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by the Spaghetti Western. They can be immediately differentiated from the competing Hollywood product by their use of dubbing. The pepla attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Spartacus, Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments.