Hercules the Invincible
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| Directed by | Alvaro Mancori Lewis Mann |
| Produced by | Alvaro Mancori |
| Written by | Pat Kein (writer) Alvaro Mancori (screenplay) Kirk Mayer (writer) |
| Starring | Dan Vadis, Spela Rozin |
| Music by | Francesco De Masi |
| Cinematography | Claude Haroy |
| Edited by | Frank Robertson |
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Release date
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19 March 1964 (Italy) |
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Running time
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85 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Hercules the Invincible (Italian: Ercole l'invincibile) is a 1964 Italian Sword and Sandal film directed by Alvaro Mancori and Lewis Mann and starring Dan Vadis. It is the first of two directing credits for cinematographer Alvaro Mancori.
The film is also known as Son of Hercules in the Land of Darkness; this title was for a series of similar films repackaged for television, The Sons of Hercules. The film reuses footage and music from Hercules and other films in the genre.
Hercules saves a woman named Telca from a lion and arrives in triumph in her village. Telca's father King Tedaeo offers Hercules Telca's hand in marriage, if he brings back the tooth of a dragon. Hercules seeks help from a witch who gives him a spear that will kill the dragon but wants the same tooth as her reward. As Hercules has promised the tooth to King Tedaeo the witch warns him that the magic of the tooth will only work once.
In Hercules' absence Telca's village has been pillaged with all the survivors save Babar the comedy relief, are taken as prisoners to the Demulus, a tribe that lives inside a mountain and eats the hearts of their prisoners.
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