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Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963)

Hercules and the Masked Rider poster
Original title
Golia e il cavaliere mascherato
Directed by
Piero Pierotti
Genre
adventure film
Country
Italy, United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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Hercules travels to seventeenth century Spain where he takes on a secret identity similar to Zorro. He fights against corrupt officials and helps the oppressed people. The film is a crossover that mixes the Hercules myth with a swashbuckling adventure.

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What happens

Hercules and the Masked Rider (Italian: Golia e il cavaliere mascherato, also known as Goliath and the Masked Rider) is a 1963 Italian peplum film written and directed by Piero Pierotti and starring Alan Steel and Mimmo Palmara. A crossover film, it is set in the seventeenth century Spain and it features Hercules (Goliath in the original version) in a Zorro-like scenario. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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