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Hercules

Name: Hercules
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action
Released: 1958-02-20
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 5.1

★ 5,1 /10 (69 Votes)

1958 IT 99 min

Overview

In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.

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Release date

20/02/1958

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Popularity

1.9

Genres

Fantasy Adventure Action

Status

Released

Original title

Le fatiche di Ercole

Language

Runtime

99 min

Steve Reeves

Ercole (Hercules)

Sylva Koscina

Iole, Daugher of Pelias

Fabrizio Mioni

Jason

Gianna Maria Canale

Antea, Queen of the Amazons

Arturo Dominici

Eurysteus

Mimmo Palmara

Iphitus, Son of Pelias

Lidia Alfonsi

The Sybil

Gabriele Antonini

Ulysses

Aldo Fiorelli

Argos

Andrea Fantasia

Laertes

Luciana Paluzzi

Iole's Maid

Ivo Garrani

Pelias, King of Iolcus

Gina Rovere

amazzone

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Lily Granado

amazzone

Afro Poli

Chironi

Gino Mattera

Orpheus

Gian Paolo Rosmino

Aesculapius

Willi Colombini

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Fulvio Carrara

Aldo Pini

Tifi

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Guido Martufi

Iphitus as a child

Paola Quattrini

Iole as a child

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Romano Barbieri

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Augusto Belardelli

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Spartaco Nale

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_**Hercules, the Mediterranean, Sylva Koscina, murder, seers, a lion, a bull, sailing and Amazons!**_ Hercules (Steve Reeves) travels to a kingdom on the coast of the Mediterranean, the Italian Peninsula, to assist a king in training his son to take over. He meets the lovely daughter of the monarch (Sylva Koscina), unravels a murder from years earlier, throws the discus, fights a lion & a bull, sails the seas in search of the priceless Golden Fleece and encounters the Amazons. "Hercules" (1958) is an Italian sword & sandal flick in the mold of “Samson and Delilah” (1949) and “Ulysses”…

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