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Hercules in the Haunted World [Ercole al centro della terra] *** (1961, Reg Park, Christopher Lee, Leonora Ruffo, George Ardisson, Marisa Belli) – Classic Movie Review 11,471

‘SEE! Creatures of Pluto – evil Lord of the Underworld! SEE! Sunis – the giant from whose land no one returns! SEE! The ten terrifying tasks of Hercules! Director Mario Bava’s cultish 1961 Italian Technicolor […]

Aug, 11

Hercules, Samson & Ulysses [Ercole Sfida Sansone] ** (1963, Kirk Morris, Iloosh Khoshabe, Enzo Cerusico, Liana Orfei) – Classic Movie Review 11,470

Writer-director Pietro Francisci’s entertainingly campy and enjoyable 1963 Italian Metrocolor peplum movie Hercules, Samson & Ulysses [Ercole Sfida Sansone] is more foreign sword-and-sandal adventure epicry, with three musclemen for the price of one, including Kirk […]

Aug, 11

Hercules in New York * (1970, Arnold Stang, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Deborah Loomis, James Karen, Ernest Graves, Tanny McDonald, Taina Elg, Michael Lipton) – Classic Movie Review 11,469

Director Arthur Allan Seidelman’s 1970 American fantasy-comedy film Hercules in New York [Hercules – the Movie] [Hercules Goes Bananas] stars Arnold Schwarzenegger (billed as Arnold Strong ‘Mr Universe’) making his film début at the age […]

Aug, 10

Hercules *** (1997, voices of Tate Donovan, Danny DeVito, Susan Egan, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 8182

Directors Ron Clements and John Musker’s prestigious and classy 1997 animated musical fantasy comedy Hercules is the 35th Disney animated feature film, loosely based on the legendary hero Hercules, the son of Zeus, in Greek […]

Feb, 28

Freaks ***** (1932, Wallace Ford, Olga Baclanova, Leila Hyams, Roscoe Ates, Harry Earles, Daisy Earles, Henry Victor) – Classic Movie Review 2462

‘Gooba-gobble, gooba-gobble. We accept her. One of us, one of us.’ MGM production supervisor Irving Thalberg, a man of discernment who produced immaculately tasteful films like Romeo and Juliet, ordered something that ‘out-horrors Frankenstein’. And director […]

May, 08

Hercules ** (2014, Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell) – Movie Review

The always likeable Dwayne Johnson is inevitable star casting as the Greek demigod Hercules, Zeus’s son, who has triumphed in his legendary 12 labours but is still haunted by the loss of his family at the hands […]

Jul, 23

Hercules Unchained [Ercole e la regina di Lidia] **½ (1959, Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez, Primo Carnera) – Classic Movie Review 923

Co-writer/director Pietro Francisci’s inevitable 1959 sequel to his and Italy’s 1957 international blockbuster hit Hercules brings muscleman Steve Reeves back with Sylva Koscina’s Iole, now the bride of Hercules, to fight the wicked Queen Omphale of […]

Mar, 16

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