Queen Akiba (Taur The Mighty)

Queen Akiba (Bella Cotrez) is the main villainess in the 1963 Italian Peplum film Taur the Mighty (the Italian title Taur, il re della forza bruta).
Queen Akiba rules a tribe of slavers who also organise gladiatorial fights. However, Queen Akiba and her followers get more than they bargained for when they capture Taur (Joe Robinson). One of her followers is helping Taur, who pretends to be under the Queen's control.
Taur is made to fight his companion Ubaratutu (Harry Baird), and the two orchestrate the fight so that Taur wins. Next Taur is tied to two chariots driven in opposite directions, yet he is too strong for the horses.
Impressed, the queen takes him to her boudoir, where she tries to seduce him. However, Taur’s companion is hiding under the bed. He emerges and the Queen is alarmed. She sounds her gong and her warriors move in to assist her, but they are all knocked down by the two men. Akiba is captured and locked in a big chest.
Humiliated, the Queen is incensed. Taur is eventually recaptured and she has him tied and placed in a grinding contraption. In the meantime, the queen enjoys the show of women fighting each other to death. But Taur frees himself and instigates a rebellion. As soon as she sees that the rebels are taking the upper hand, the Queen tries to escape. Akiba is however followed by one of her slaves, Ilia (Thea Fleming), who catches and stabs her in the stomach, killing her. 
==Gallery==
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screenshot_6635.png|Queen Akiba on her throne
screenshot_6636.png|Giving orders
screenshot_6637.png|Everyone bows to the Queen
screenshot_6628.png|Seducing Thur
screenshot_6629.png|...not quite
screenshot_6638.png|They get her out of the chest - she's furious
screenshot_6639.png|On the way to see off Thur to his punishment and death
screenshot_6640.png|Smiling as she sees Thur off to the grinding machine
screenshot_6641.png|Enjoying Taur's (apparent) defeat
screenshot_6642.png|Wants for Thur to be led into the grinding machine
screenshot_6643.png|Seeing off Thur to his death, or so she thinks
screenshot_6644.png|Fight to the death!
screenshot_6645.png|The queen is told of Taur's escape
screenshot_6646.png|Alarmed as the slaves rise against her
screenshot_6647.png|The queen attemps to flee
screenshot_6648.png|Into the cave
screenshot_6650.png|Afraid of being followed
screenshot_6652.png|Futile attempt at escaping the heroine
screenshot_6654.png|The queen is forced into a very one-sided confrontation
screenshot_6655.png|Defenseless
screenshot_6656.png|The queen screams in pain as she's stabbed by the heroine
 
Category:1960s
Category:Barefoot
Category:Cape
Category:Catfight
Category:Coward
Category:Crown
Category:Demise: Stabbed
Category:Failed Seduction
Category:Humiliated
Category:Live Action Villainess
Category:Long Skirts & Dresses
Category:Open Side Dress
Category:Queen
Category:Seat Of Authority
Category:Slave Owner
Category:Torturer
Category:Tyrant
Category:Woman Kills Villainess
Category:Fate: Deceased