Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963)

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

How it feels

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.

adventurouslightheartedaction-packedswashbucklingcampyfast-pacednostalgicformulaic

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)

Trailer

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