While negotiating peace between two brothers contesting the throne of Thebes, an amnesiac Hercules is seduced by the evil Queen Omphale.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Steve Reeves | ... | Hercules | |
| Sylva Koscina | ... | Iole, bride of Ercole | |
| Sylvia Lopez | ... | Queen Onfale, of Lidia | |
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Patrizia Della Rovere | ... | Penelope |
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Primo Carnera | ... | Anteo, the giant |
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Carlo D'Angelo | ... | Creonte, High Priest of Thebes |
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Gabriele Antonini | ... | Ulisses, son of Laertes |
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Cesare Fantoni | ... | Edipus, King of Thebes |
| Mimmo Palmara | ... | Polinices | |
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Andrea Fantasia | ... | Laertes, King of Ithaca |
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Aldo Fiorelli | ... | Argos, the Shipbuilder |
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Gino Mattera | ... | Orpheo |
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Aldo Pini | ... | Tifi, Pilot of the Argos |
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Nino Marchetti | ... | Fossore |
| Daniele Vargas | ... | Anfiarao | |
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En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger. Written by Molly Malloy <mailcall@bluemarble.net>
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13 July 1960 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Hercules Unchained See more »Filming Locations:
Titanus Appia Studios, Rome, Lazio, ItalyCompany Credits
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Written by Enzo Masetti (as Tito Manzese), Carlo Savina and Dario Bernazza
Sung by Sylva Koscina (dubbed by Marisa Del Frate in the Italian version)
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The Italian main title co-credits Iole's song to "Tito Manzese." This was not only a pseudonym, but an anagram of Enzo Masetti who wrote the score. See more »Soundtracks
Con te per l'eternitàWritten by Enzo Masetti (as Tito Manzese), Carlo Savina and Dario Bernazza
Sung by Sylva Koscina (dubbed by Marisa Del Frate in the Italian version)
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Hercules becomes amnesiac after drinking from the waters of Lethe. For years, the beautiful queen Omphale has been abducting warrior men who become amnesiacs off to her exotic paradise island where they give themselves up to sexual pleasures until the day she tires of them. That's the day they die, only to be immortalized as statuary in her garden of conquests. Hercules soon finds himself abducted and like all the others he is her completely willing slave.
But this time her soldiers bring back Hercules' traveling companion Ulysses, who has saved his life by pretending to be the hero's deaf-mute body servant. Ulysses continues in that role during Hercules' captivity and by keeping Hercules from drinking more of the magical water, restores his memory.
'I've been tricked by the gods.' is his summation of the situation. After all, he had been on an important mission of state with his wife the virtual hostage of a madman when all this happened. Of course he gets away, the first of Ompahle's slaves to escape her net. She statue-tizes herself over the lose and the movie moves on to its conclusion.
All Sons of Hercules movies have this same plot: Hercules falls under the sway of a powerful, beautiful and evil woman but comes to his senses and saves the day. At its core it is about sex and the taboo predilection of men to seek this enslavement. This plot is not fashionable any more. Too much sexual freedom in modern society has robbed it of its power. But it had power (over men) in the sixties, and this film exploited it expertly.