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| Directed by | Alvaro Mancori Lewis Mann |
| Written by | Pat Kein (writer) Alvaro Mancori (screenplay) Kirk Mayer (writer) |
| Produced by | Alvaro Mancori |
| Starring | Dan Vadis, Spela Rozin |
| Cinematography | Claude Haroy |
| Edited by | Frank Robertson |
| Music by | Francesco De Masi |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Hercules the Invincible (Italian:Ercole l'invincibile) is a 1964 ItalianSword and Sandal film directed byAlvaro Mancori and Lewis Mann and starringDan Vadis. It is the first of two directing credits for cinematographer Alvaro Mancori.
The film was later released to American television retitledSon of Hercules in the Land of Darkness as part of theSons of Hercules TV syndication package.
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 and all the survivors –save Babar, thecomedy relief – are taken as prisoners to the Demulus, a tribe that lives inside a mountain and eats the hearts of their prisoners.
From contemporary reviews, an anonymous review inThe Monthly Film Bulletin noted that "the sloth-like hero belongs to the more dim-witted school of muscle-men, so that it takes a companion, in the shape of a comically cowardly assistant to demonstrate by contrast the heroic stature of Hercules."[1] The review noted "there is some modestly colourful spectacle in the scenes of the underground city and its destruction by lava."[1]
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