Hercule et la reine de Lydie

Titre original : Ercole e la regina di Lidia

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Sylva Koscina and Steve Reeves in Hercule et la reine de Lydie (1959)

Alors qu'il négocie la paix entre deux frères qui se disputent le trône de Thèbes, un Hercule amnésique est séduit par la méchante reine Omphale.Alors qu'il négocie la paix entre deux frères qui se disputent le trône de Thèbes, un Hercule amnésique est séduit par la méchante reine Omphale.Alors qu'il négocie la paix entre deux frères qui se disputent le trône de Thèbes, un Hercule amnésique est séduit par la méchante reine Omphale.

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Anecdotes
French-born model-turned-actress Sylvia Lopez was already ill with leukemia at the time of filming. She was only able to complete one more film in 1959, and died at age 26 while working on another film.

Gaffes
Watch closely the second time Hercules takes up Ulysses' challenge to bend the iron torch stand in an attempt to remember who he is. He successfully does so, and then unbends it just as easily, leaving a slight curve in the stem. However when he returns the stand to its original location, the stand is perfectly straight.

Citations
Hercules: I'm so sleepy, I can't seem to keep awake!

Crédits fous
The Italian main title co-credits Iole's song to "Tito Manzese." This was not only a pseudonym, but an anagram of Enzo Masetti who wrote the score.

Connexions
Edited into Hercules Recycled (1994)

Bandes originales
Evening Star
Music by Enzo Masetti
Lyrics by Mitchell Parish
Sung by Sylva Koscina (dubbed by June Valli in the English version)

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6/10

entertaining fairy tale

Only a fool would curse a fairy tale because it narrates the actions of a witch. A good man has a strong enough heart to allow differences to flourish as long as people are allowed to live their lives in a peaceable manner.

That's the great lesson that underlines this film, otherwise silly and occasionally mawkish. I suppose that's why intelligent children have loved the Hercules myth ever since it could be recorded. Hercules is pretty dumb, but he's a nice guy with good intentions, the most important of which is to keep those who have let power corrupt them from bringing ruin to farmers and villagers and other peaceful working people.

Here he is threatened by three evil generals and an over-self-indulgent witch. The plot is partly based on the Hercules myth itself, but borrows freely from the Odyssey and from the Oedipus plays, with just a dash of the Argonauts legend tossed in briefly at the beginning.

Alright, so it's a mess. And the middle third is just outright dull as the witch grows to love her buffoonish captive.

Never mind. It's well-made for its time and place, colorful, and even occasionally lyrical. And some of the fight scenes retain their excitement, after all these years.

Perhaps best viewed - and understood - by children; but can provide real entertainment for intelligent adults in the right frame of mind.