Queen Taliade (The Invincible Brothers Maciste)

Queen Taliade, played by Claudie Lange, is the characteristic peplum evil queen in the 1964 movie The Invincible Brothers
Maciste.
Prince
Akim (Anthony Steffen) and his fiancée Jhana (Ursula Davis) are building a temple for the gods, assisted by the
Maciste brothers. However Queen Taliade orders her henchmen, the leopard-men,
to abduct Jhana so as to draw the prince to her subterranean realm in order to
marry him.
The
Maciste brothers follow the abductors and locate the watery entrance to
Taliade’s subterranean realm. One of the brothers (Iloosh Khoshabe) goes back to tell the prince
of the abduction of his fiancée, whilst the second Maciste (Mario Novelli) is captured in a
cage-like trap and then drawn in to the subterranean kingdom, where he is made
to drink a potion that constrains him to obey the queen.
Maciste
becomes the queen’s new favourite; however her old favourite asks for the
chance to win back his status by fighting Maciste. The queen enjoys the fight
and she punishes the defeat of her old favourite by having him tied to a mill
that, if stopped, would result in the destruction of the kingdom.
Akim
is then led into Queen Taliade’s realm, where she offers to free his fiancée
and the slaves in return for his marriage to her. The prince reluctantly agrees to the
request; however as the ceremony is to be celebrated the second Maciste brother
enters the queen's realm. The queen is warned by her henchmen, and she sends
the first Maciste to stop the intruder. The Maciste thrall to the queen wins
the confrontation and the queen, who is watching through a magical TV-like
apparatus, sees that all is well and orders the resumption of the marriage ceremony. In
the meantime however, a former favourite of the queen who is in love with the
first Maciste acquires a counter-potion that frees the hero from the
enchantment. At this point both brothers fight and defeat the leopoard-men at
the entrance to the cavernous realm. One brother then operates the mill to
ensure that the subterranean realm does not collapse with the prince and his
fiancée in it, whilst the other descends into the caves to free the couple.
The first Maciste defeats the leopard-men in the cave and liberates the slaves. As soon as she sees that her men are being defeated, Queen Taliade tries to escape; however she falls victim to the cage-like trap that had captured Maciste. However, this time there is no one to stop the mechanism, and and the metal spikes that are part of the trap skewer the queen. 
==Trivia ==
*Claudie Lange played the gang leader Alika in the 1967 Italian film, "Flashman".
==Gallery  ==
taliade throne walk.gif|Queen Taliade walking to her throne
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Vlcsnap-2017-07-15-14h54m14s527.png|Maciste is to invader her realm
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Pic12zz.png|Taliade, Jhana and her soon to be former favourite
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Pic_1.png|Queen Taliade (right) and Jhana after the abduction
vlcsnap-2018-07-14-14h27m50s458.png|Taliade laughs as she dismisses her old favourite
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Pic_2.png|Taliade and her old favourite before his defeat to Maciste
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Pic_3.png|Enjoying the fight
vlcsnap-2018-07-14-14h29m26s938.png|Enjoying the scene of two men fighting to the death for her favour
Pic_5.png|Watching on as Maciste and old favourite fight
vlcsnap-2018-07-14-14h30m27s333.png|watching the fight
vlcsnap-2018-07-14-14h32m49s916.png|She has just given the order for her old favourite to be killed on the wheel
Vlcsnap-2017-07-15-15h01m48s225.png|Maciste under Taliade's control....for the time being
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Vlcsnap-2017-07-18-18h48m54s976.png|Bathing in front of Maciste
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Vlcsnap-2017-07-18-18h49m59s729.png|Showing off...
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Vlcsnap-2017-07-18-18h51m30s862.png|Kissing Maciste
vlcsnap-2018-07-15-07h52m07s738.png|gazing at the object of her desire, ultimately the cause of her demise
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Pic_6.png|The prince is brought to her
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Pic_7.png|She really wants the prince
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Pic_8.png|gazing at the prince during the ceremony
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Pic_9.png|All's well. The first Maciste stops the second, or so she thinks
Vlcsnap-2017-07-18-18h59m55s162.png|Ready to escape as her followers die for her
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Pic_10.png|Her minions fight for her. She escapes
Vlcsnap-2017-07-18-19h01m08s658.png|cowardly escape
taliade cowardly escape.gif|Taliade's cowardly escape
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Vlcsnap-2017-07-18-19h02m07s840.png|Trapped
Vlcsnap-2017-07-18-19h02m44s482.png|The spikes descend upon her
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Pic_12.png|Taliade looks on in horror as she is about to be skewered
Vlcsnap-2017-07-18-19h02m52s065.png|Terrorised
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maciste movie poster.jpg|Movie Poster: Queen Taliade on the left (in red dress) and right
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Category:Demise: Skewered
Category:Fate: Deceased
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