Hercules and the Captive Women
(1961)
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Hercules and the Captive Women
(1961)
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Reg Park | ... | |
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Ettore Manni | ... |
Androclo, Re di Tebe
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Luciano Marin | ... |
Illo
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Laura Efrikian | ... |
Ismene, Antinea's Daughter
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Enrico Maria Salerno | ... |
Re di Megara
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Ivo Garrani | ... |
Re di Megalia
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| Gian Maria Volonté | ... |
Re di Sparta
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Mimmo Palmara | ... |
Astor, il Gran Visir
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Mario Petri | ... |
Zenith, prete di Urano
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Mino Doro | ... |
Oraclo
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Salvatore Furnari | ... |
Timoteo, il nano
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Alessandro Sperli | ... |
King with Mother
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Mario Valdemarin | ... |
Gabor
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Luciana Angiolillo | ... |
Deianira, Hercules' Wife
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The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) saves a beautiful maiden from the hands of an evil creature. She takes him to her home, Atlantis. Herc kicks some butt and saves her from her mother who wants to kill her and from some scary looking blond guys but unfortunately the rest of the inhabitants are destroyed. Do not worry because Herc escapes along with his son, the maiden and an annoying midget. Written by Splinter <dasplint@nauticom.net>
This is definitely a better movie than a lot of other Italian Hercules productions out there. Not that the quality of this movie is being exceptionally high though. It still is a movie that brings some nice entertainment, no matter how ridicules the movie often gets.
This was the first time that British Reg Park took on the Hercules role. Park was a multiple time Mr. Universe champion, just like Steve Reeves, who had played the character of Hercules in previous movie productions. His physique of course definitely helped him getting these sort of roles. His career also ended pretty soon after he started to age, like often happens to these types of 'actors'.
Like all these sort of Italian swords and sandals productions, it's a very cheap and often laughable looking movie, even though the movie is also being grand to look at with its enormous and colorful sets. The movie does use some silly early effects, though you just can not accuse this movie of not being creative. It just doesn't always works in the movie its own advantage.
I of course couldn't care less about the story of the movie and all that seemed to matter was that the movie. All that seems to matter for this movie is that it's being entertaining. The movie does really bring some silly fun, also long as you of course don't except a movie with class or of a very high quality.
A better movie than most other Italian Hercules productions and also certainly way better than its current reputation and rating.
6/10
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