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Hercules Unchained

Hercules Unchained

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 14, 1959

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Fantasy, Action

User Score

50%

Original Title

Ercole e la regina di Lidia

Production Companies

Galatea Film, Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France, Lux Film

Director

Pietro Francisci

Description

En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.