HERCULES UNCHAINED (1959)
Ercole e la regina di Lidia (original title)
1959 Italy
Direction: Pietro Francisci
Writers: Pietro Francisci (story), Sophocles (story based on: play “Oedipus at Colonus”)
Actors: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez
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.
FOLLOWS
- Hercules (1958)
FOLLOWED BY
- Hercules Conquers Atlantis (1961)
- Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)
- Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)
FULL MOVIE
