Hercules and the Captive Women

Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide

Italy, France

1961

94 Min

Color

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Vittorio Cottafavi, Sandro Continenza, Duccio Tessari, Nicolò Ferrari, Pierre Benoît

CAST Reg Park, Ettore Manni, Fay Spain, Luciano Marini, Enrico Maria Salerno, Ivo Garrani, Gian Maria Volontè, Mimmo Palmara, Mario Petri, Mino Doro, Alessandro Sperli, Mario Valdemarin, Luciana Angiolillo

MUSIC Gino Marinuzzi Jr., Armando Trovajoli

Synopsis

When King Androcles (Ettore Manni) is washed overboard in the midst of an expedition, Hercules (Reg Park) travels to a nearby island to search for him and discovers that the uncharted isle is the kingdom of Atlantis. Once there, Hercules discovers that the island’s tyrannical ruler, the beautiful yet diabolical Queen Antinea (Fay Spain), has set an evil plot in motion to take over the entire world.

Director

Vittorio Cottafavi

A graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, Vittorio Cottafavi began in the industry as a clapperboy. After graduating to screenplays and assistant direction under Alessandro Blasetti and Vittorio De Sica, he became a director in his own right in 1943. Many of his films have been “sword-and sandal” epics, dealing with the Roman Empire. Cottafavi concentrated exclusively on television work from the mid-’60s. —IMDb