Palma can be glimpsed in all kinds of movies, including crime dramas, musical comedies, costume epics, westerns, serials, and two-reel comedies.

This swashbuckling costume epic, set in the Middle Ages, suggests a fusion of "Ben Hur" and Wagner's "Ring" cycle.

This is not yet another remake of the swashbuckling costume epic based on the Anthony Hope novel.

Let the uptown art houses take the latest, made-for-export costume epics, like "Curse of the Golden Flower" or "House of Flying Daggers."

Playing opposite everyone from Basil Rathbone to Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow, Miss Dove acted in a broad range of films: costume epics, war movies, westerns, romantic comedies.

His global fame was not always matched by popularity at home, and Japanese audiences seemed to tire of his costume epics.

Those films and inspirational costume epics like "The Robe," were, he acknowledged, "theatrical, but isn't religion theatrical?

The film proved to be an enormous success, a success that Xinhua's chief Zhang Shankun wished to replicate it with a second costume epic.

Historical costume epics often overlapped with the Huángméidiào, such as in The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959).