Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules (1961)
"Maciste, l'uomo più forte del mondo" (original title)

Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an ... See full summary »

Director:

Antonio Leonviola

Writers:

Marcello Baldi (screenplay), Stephen Garrett (English version),

Stars:

Mark Forest, Moira Orfei, Paul Wynter

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mark Forest	...	Maciste, the Son of Hercules
Moira Orfei	...	Queen Halis Mosab
Paul Wynter	...	Bangor
Raffaella Carrà	...	Princess Saliurà
Enrico Glori	...	Kahab
Roberto Miali	...	Loth
Nando Tamberlani	...	King of Aran (as Ferdinando Tamberlani)
Carla Foscari	...	(as Carla De Foscari)
Rosalia Gavo
Graziella Granata
Janine Hendy	...	Black slave girl (as Jannin Hendy)
Cinzia Cam
Bruna Mori
Anna De Martino
Franca Polesello

Storyline

Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city's queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can't follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the "world above." If Katar can marry her, their children can be "normal" and can live in the ...

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Plot Keywords:

underground | queen | sunlight | princess | ape | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

10 October 1961 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Mole Men vs. the Son of Hercules

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Box Office

Gross:

ESP 19,874,368 (Spain)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Interfilm, Leone Film

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

Since Greco-Roman society had neither the knowledge nor the means to cut and polish diamonds into jewels, the evil Queen's diamond-mining operations are pointless.

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Quotes

Maciste: [to Regina Halis Mosab] Did you really think that I would sit beside you on a blood-drenched throne?

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Connections

Edited into Seven Rebel Gladiators (1965)

User Reviews

One of the worst!

Once again our Italian friends come up with sheer nonsense!,people from underground who are obviously painted white with wigs that seem to have been rescued from a blaxploitation film, the usual bad photography is evident as in most sword and sandal epics, our hero the very handsome and athletic Mark Forest battles gamely against all the odds while no doubt having one eye on his bank account to provide him with an opera singing school, something he still does to this day,if anything he was one of the best muscle men but never really got any decent films to work on in the genre although most were made almost back to back in a production line way you would think at least one or two might have had attention holding qualities.