Hercules Unchained (1959)

Original title

Ercole e la regina di Lidia

Directed by

Pietro Francisci

Genre

fantasy film, adventure film, sword and sorcery film, sword-and-sandal film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 54 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Hercules gets caught up in a dispute between two brothers who are fighting for a kingdom. He also faces trouble at the court of Queen Omphale in this sequel to the 1958 Hercules film.

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What happens

Hercules Unchained (Italian: Ercole e la regina di Lidia [ˈɛrkole е la reˈdʒiːna di ˈliːdja], "Hercules and the Queen of Lydia") is a 1959 Italian-French epic fantasy feature film starring Steve Reeves and Sylva Koscina in a story about two warring brothers and Hercules' tribulations in the court of Queen Omphale. The film is the sequel to the Reeves vehicle Hercules (1958) and marks Reeves' second—and last—appearance as Hercules. The film's screenplay, loosely based upon various Greek mythology and plays by Aeschylus and Sophocles, was written by Ennio De Concini and Pietro Francisci with Francisci directing, and Bruno Vailati and Ferruccio De Martino producing the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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