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Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules

Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 10, 1961

Runtime

1h 34m

Genres

Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

User Score

55%

Original Title

Maciste, l'uomo più forte del mondo

Production Companies

Leone Film

Director

Antonio Leonviola

Description

Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city's queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can't follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the "world above." If Katar can marry her...