Although the title of this movie is "Hercules and the Masked Rider", a more appropriate title would be "The Masked Rider and Hercules", since the masked rider character appears a heck of a lot more in the movie than Hercules does! Also, while there is a character named "Hercules" in the movie, a muscular fellow, this particular Hercules does not seem to possess the god-like strength one usually associates with the character in other sword and sandal movies. Also, the movie's setting appears to be medieval Spain instead of Hercules' usual stomping grounds. Obviously the American distributor of this movie pulled a baitand switch on its audience during the translation process. That didn't really concern me - I was looking for action and spectacle in whatever form the movie chose. However, the action is just okay at its best. And the production values, while not cheap, are not more than the bare minimum needed. Not a terrible movie, but it is instantly forgettable right after watching it, and would only probably be of interest to fans of European genre movies of the early 1960s.
Review of Hercules and the Masked Rider
