Samson and His Mighty Challenge
- Samson and His Mighty Challenge
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director = Giorgio Capitani
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starring = Sergio Ciani
Howard Ross
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released = 1964
runtime = 94 min.
country = Italy / Spain / France
language = Italian
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imdb_id = 0059672
"Samson and His Mighty Challenge" is an Italian sword and sandal film, released in 1964. Its original title was "Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili" ("Hercules, Samson, Maciste, and Ursus: the Invincibles").
ynopsis
Hercules argues with his father Zeus who thinks that his son should follow the road of virtue. Instead, Hercules follows the road of pleasure which leads him to the city of Lydia. There he falls in love with the princess Omphale and he asks from her mother Nemea permission to marry her. Although Nemea is thrilled with the idea of having a demigod as a husband for her daughter, Omphale doesn't even want to hear about it because she is in love with Inor the barbarian prince. So the couple crafts a cunning plan.
They hide their dwarf friend under the statue of Zeus and he tells Hercules that in order to marry Omphale he must battle with the most powerful man in the world: Samson. Hercules agrees and the queen sends a messenger to tell Samson about the fight. Samson agrees, although his wife Delilah thinks that it is not a good idea because her husband has a taste for beautiful women. So Delilah cuts his hair and makes him weak. However, the messenger does not know this, and he thinks that his wife doesn't let him go. In order to return to Lydia with Samson, he hires the troublemaker Ursus who recently lost a fight to Maciste to kidnap him.
Cast
* Sergio Ciani (Alan Steel) as "Hercules"
* Howard Ross as "Maciste"
* Nadir Baltimore as "Samson"
* Yann L'Arvor as "Ursus "
Reinterpretation
In 1993 this film was re-released as a comedy under the name "Hercules Returns". The original dialogue was overdubbed by Australian actors and a number of extra scenes were filmed.
External links
*imdb title|id=0059672|title=Samson and His Mighty Challenge
*imdb title|id=0107103|title=Hercules Returns (1993 remake)
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