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Release year: 1958

Storyline

The muscular Hercules performs his labors, sails with the Argonauts, and romances the fair Iole.

Top credits

Directors

Pietro Francisci

Writers

Cast

Steve Reeves — Hercules
Sylva Koscina — Iole, Daugher of Pelias
Fabrizio Mioni — Jason
Ivo Garrani — Pelias, King of Iolcus

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Did you know

• During the scene in which Hercules uses chains against enemy soldiers, director Pietro Francisci became annoyed with Steve Reeves because he felt that he wasn't swinging the chains hard enough to be convincing. Reeves claimed that he didn't want to swing the wooden chains (painted to look like they were metal) too hard because he didn't want to hurt the actors. In response, Francisci shouted back "If they don't get hurt, they don't get paid!"

• The roar of the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece is Godzilla'a roar from Godzilla (1954) (U.S. title: "Godzilla, King of the Monsters"). Joseph E. Levine had acquired and released that film three years earlier.

• Joseph E. Levine acquired the U.S. distribution rights to this film, which he retitled "Hercules," for $120,000. Levine called it, "One of the worst pictures I ever saw, but I knew it had great appeal. There was a market for anything then." Levine publicized it on TV and it grossed a million dollars in its first ten days.