In 1973, the Spanish cult film director Jesus Franco directed two low-budget "Maciste films" for French producers: "Maciste contre la Reine des Amazones" ("Maciste vs the Queen of the Amazons") and "Les exploits érotiques de Maciste dans l'Atlantide" ("The Erotic Exploits of Maciste in Atlantis"). The films had almost identical casts, both starring Val Davis as Maciste, and appear to have been shot back-to-back. The former was distributed in Italy as a "Karzan" movie (a cheap Tarzan imitation), while the latter film was released only in France with hardcore inserts as "Les Gloutonnes" ("The Gobblers"). These two films were totally unrelated to the 1960s Italian Maciste series.