Hercules Unchained

Hercules Unchained
US film poster
Ercole e la regina di Lidia (Italian)
Directed byPietro Francisci
Screenplay byEnnio De Concini
Pietro Francisci
Story byPietro Francisci
Based onOedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
Seven Against Thebes
by Aeschylus
Produced byBruno Vailati
StarringSteve Reeves
Sylva Koscina
Primo Carnera
Sylvia Lopez
CinematographyMario Bava
Edited byMario Serandrei
Music byEnzo Masetti
Production
companies
Lux Film
Galatea Film
Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
Distributed byLux Film
Release dates
  • 14 February 1959 (1959-02-14) (Italy)
  • 30 June 1960 (1960-06-30) (United States)
Running time
97 minutes[3]
CountriesItaly
France[1][2]
LanguageItalian
Box office$2.5 million (US/Canada rentals)[4]

Hercules Unchained (Italian: Ercole e la regina di Lidia [ˈɛrkole е lla reˈdʒiːna di ˈliːdja], "Hercules and the Queen of Lydia") is a 1959 Italian-French epic fantasy feature film starring Steve Reeves and Sylva Koscina in a story about two warring brothers and Hercules' tribulations in the court of Queen Omphale. The film is the sequel to the Reeves vehicle Hercules (1958) and marks Reeves' second – and last – appearance as Hercules. The film's screenplay, loosely based upon various Greek mythology and plays by Aeschylus and Sophocles, was written by Ennio De Concini and Pietro Francisci with Francisci directing and Bruno Vailati and Ferruccio De Martino producing the film.

  1. ^ Eder, Bruce. "Hercules Unchained". AllMovie. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  2. ^ "Ercole e la regina di Lidia". BFI Film & Television Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
  3. ^ "HERCULES UNCHAINED (U)". British Board of Film Classification. 19 May 1960. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Rental Potentials of 1960". Variety. 4 January 1961. p. 47. Retrieved 2 January 2021 – via Archive.org.