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American actor Steve Reeves (whom over his career played Sandokan, Aeneas,
Romulus and even Phillipides) once again embodies Hercules, the mythological
Greek hero, in this second part of the 1957 film, Hercules.
The movie, directed by Pietro Francisci (again) with photography by Mario
Bava (as in the previous title), uses texts by Sophocles and Aeschylus
to narrate the attempts of Hercules, accompanied by his wife and the young
Ulysses, to prevent a war for control of Tebas between Oedipus’
two sons. During one of his journeys he ends up in the arms of the dangerous
Queen of Lydia (Silvia López), who orders that all of his past
lovers be murdered. The amnesiac Hercules lives several days of intense
idyll with the Queen. |
