this good guy v the evil tyrant story and set in 19th century russia and may have be an attempt to extend steve reef career beyond those hercules movie . however and despite the different costume and it still a hercules movie with the usual stilted dialog and haphazard dubbing and and cardboard character . on the other hand and there lot of action and the pace rarely flags and and reeve get to do yet another one of those scene where he strip to the waist and bound with rope and and give a vigorous whipping which and needless to say and have little effect on his defiant character .