Hercules of the Desert

Last updated
Hercules of the Desert
Hercules of the Desert.jpg
Directed by Tanio Boccia
Written byMario Moroni
Alberto De Rossi
Tanio Boccia
Produced by Luigi Rovere
Starring Kirk Morris
Hélène Chanel
CinematographyAldo Giordani
Edited byTanio Boccia
Music by Carlo Rustichelli
Release date
  • 1964 (1964)
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Hercules of the Desert (Italian : La valle dell'eco tonante/ Valley of the Thundering Echo), aka Maciste and the Women of the Valley, is a 1964 Italian peplum film directed by Tanio Boccia and starring Kirk Morris. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Plot

A fabulous land of green pastures is protected from invasion by the mysterious Valley of the Thundering Echo. Queen Farida draws together the desert tribes to conquer the land, even though a prophecy has promised the land to the Gameli tribe. The Gameli journey to the Silver Temple, where the High Priest summons the legendary Maciste from the mountain rock to defeat their enemies and guide them to their promised land. Maciste materializes magically from a rock wall in a cave in this film, tying in with Maciste's claim in earlier films that his name means born of the rock.

Cast

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maciste</span>

Maciste is one of the oldest recurring characters of cinema, created by Gabriele d'Annunzio and Giovanni Pastrone. He is featured throughout the history of the cinema of Italy from the 1910s to the mid-1960s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Sons of Hercules</span> American television show

The Sons of Hercules is a syndicated Embassy Pictures television show that aired in the United States in the 1960s. The series repackaged 13 Italian sword-and-sandal films by giving them a standardized theme song for the opening and closing titles, as well as a standard introductory narration attempting to relate the lead character in each film to the Greek demigod Hercules. These films however were not all originally made as "Hercules" films in Italy. Although two of them did originally feature Hercules, four of the films were originally Maciste movies in Italy, and the others were just isolated gladiator or mythological hero movies not released theatrically in the US.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sword-and-sandal</span> Genre of largely Italian-made historical or biblical epics

Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum, is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Samson and Delilah (1949), Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960), and Cleopatra (1963). These films dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by spaghetti Western and Eurospy films.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kirk Morris</span> Italian bodybuilder and actor (born 1942)

Kirk Morris is an Italian bodybuilder and actor, best known for his work in sword-and-sandal films.

<i>The Witchs Curse</i> 1962 Italian film

The Witch's Curse is a 1962 Italian peplum-fantasy film, directed by Riccardo Freda.

<i>Hercules Against the Barbarians</i> 1964 Italian film

Hercules Against the Barbarians is a 1964 Italian peplum film directed by Domenico Paolella.

<i>Samson vs. the Giant King</i> Film

Samson vs. the Giant King is a 1964 Italian fantasy-peplum film directed by Amerigo Anton.

<i>Hercules Against the Mongols</i> 1963 Italian film

Hercules Against the Mongols is a 1963 Italian peplum film directed by Domenico Paolella.

<i>Samson and the Sea Beast</i> 1963 Italian film

Samson and the Sea Beast is a 1963 Italian peplum film directed by Tanio Boccia.

<i>Toto vs. Maciste</i> 1962 Italian film

Toto vs. Maciste is a 1962 Italian adventure-comedy film directed by Fernando Cerchio. It is a parody of the Sword and Sandal cinema, which was highly successful at the time in Italy.

<i>The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules</i> 1964 film

The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules is a 1964 peplum film directed by Mario Caiano and starring Mark Forest and Marilù Tolo.

<i>Colossus of the Arena</i> 1962 film

Colossus of the Arena is a 1962 Italian peplum film directed by Michele Lupo and starred by Mark Forest.

<i>The Invincible Brothers Maciste</i> 1964 Italian film

The Invincible Brothers Maciste is a 1964 Italian peplum film written and directed by Roberto Mauri.

<i>Son of Samson</i> 1960 Italian film

Son of Samson is a 1960 Italian peplum film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Mark Forest. The film was distributed to English-speaking countries as Son of Samson, although in the original film, Maciste had no relation to Samson whatsoever.

<i>Triumph of the Son of Hercules</i> 1961 Italian film

Triumph of the Son of Hercules is a 1961 Italian peplum film directed by Tanio Boccia and starring Kirk Morris.

<i>Ursus in the Land of Fire</i> 1963 Italian film

Ursus in the Land of Fire, released directly to U.S. television as Son of Hercules in the Land of Fire, is a 1963 Italian peplum film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Ed Fury as Ursus, and Adriano Micantoni as the evil usurper, Amilcare.

<i>Hercules vs. Moloch</i> 1963 film

Hercules vs. Moloch is a 1963 Italian/French international co-production peplum film written and directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Gordon Scott. The film reuses battle scenes from Ferroni's 1961 film The Trojan Horse.

<i>Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens</i> 1964 film

Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens is a 1964 Italian adventure film written and directed by Emimmo Salvi and starring Gordon Mitchell. The film was released straight to television in the United States by American International Television in 1965.

<i>Terror of the Steppes</i> 1964 film

Terror of the Steppes is a 1964 Italian adventure film written and directed by Tanio Boccia and starring Kirk Morris.

<i>Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules</i> 1964 film

Messalina vs. the Son of Hercules is a 1964 peplum film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Richard Harrison and Lisa Gastoni.

References

  1. ↑ Michele Giordano. Giganti buoni. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN   8877421835.
  2. ↑ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN   8884405033.
  3. ↑ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti - Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN   8860736269.


Italy film clapperboard.svg

This article related to an Italian film of the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.