Hercules and the Masked Rider

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Hercules and the Masked Rider
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Directed by Piero Pierotti
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Luciano Martino
  • Piero Perotti [1]
Produced by Fortunato Misiano [1]
Starring
Cinematography Augusto Tiezzi [1]
Edited by Jolanda Benvenuti [1]
Release date
  • 17 November 1963 (1963-11-17)(Italy)
Running time
85 minutes [1]

Hercules and the Masked Rider (Italian : Golia e il cavaliere mascherato, also known as Goliath and the Masked Rider) is a 1963 Italian peplum film written and directed by Piero Pierotti and starring Alan Steel and Mimmo Palmara. A crossover film, it is set in the seventeenth century Spain and it features Hercules (Goliath in the original version) in a Zorro-like scenario. [2] [3] [4]

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Plot

Cast

Release

Hercules and the Masked Rider was released in Italy on 17 November 1963 with an 85-minute running time. [1] It received a release in the United States in 1964 with an 86-minute running time. [1]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 87.
  2. Michele Giordano. Giganti buoni. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN   8877421835.
  3. Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN   8884405033.
  4. Jay Slater (2002). Eaten alive!: Italian cannibal and zombie movies. Plexus, 2002. ISBN   0859653145.

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References

  • Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (2017). Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990. McFarland. ISBN   978-1476662916.