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For the first time in 4K, Hercules (Italian: Le fatiche di Ercole 'The Labours of Hercules') is a 1958 Italian peplum film based upon the Hercules and the Quest for the Golden Fleece myths. The film stars Steve Reeves as the titular hero and Sylva Koscina as his love interest Princess Iole. Hercules was directed by Pietro Francisci and produced by Federico Teti. The film spawned a 1959 sequel, Hercules Unchained (Italian: Ercole e la Regina di Lidia), that also starred Reeves and Koscina.

Hercules made Reeves an international film star and effectively paved the way for the dozens of 1960s peplum (or "sword and sandal") films featuring bodybuilder actors as mythological heroes and gladiators battling monsters, despots, and evil queens.

In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts. Written by Rod Crawford

Directed by: Pietro Francisci
Produced by: Federico Teti
Based on: The Argonauts by Apollonius of Rhodes

Cast:
Steve Reeves as Hercules
Sylva Koscina as Iole
Fabrizio Mioni as Jason
Ivo Garrani as Pelias, King of Iolcus
Gianna Maria Canale as Antea, Queen of the Amazons
Arturo Dominici as Eurysteus
Mimmo Palmara as Iphitus, son of Pelias
Lidia Alfonsi as The Sibyl
Gabriele Antonini as Ulysses
Aldo Fiorelli as Argos
Andrea Fantasia as Laertes
Luciana Paluzzi as Iole's maid as Luciana Paoluzzi
Afro Poli as Chiron
Gian Paolo Rosmino as Aesculapius
Willi Colombini as Pollux
Fulvio Carrara as Castor
Gino Mattera as Orpheus
Gina Rovere as Amazon
Lily Granado as Amazon
Aldo Pini as Tifi
Guido Martufi as Iphitus, as a child
Paola Quattrini as Iole, as a child

Original release date:
20 February 1958 (Italy)

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