Friday, July 18, 2014

Photo of the Day

The Argonauts from HERCULES (1958)

The actors are: Fulvio Carrara as Pollux, Willy Colombini as Castor, Fabrizio Mioni as Jason, Aldo Pini as Tifi, Steve Reeves as Hercules, Gabriele Antonini as Ulysses, Andrea Fantasia as Laertes and  Gino Mattera as Orpheus.

Great photo! They just don't make films like this anymore.

Back on Monday!


1 comment:

Anonymous said...


The great inspiring chorus (Coro dei marinai) comes to mind where the Argonauts row and Orpheus (Gino Mattera) sings with the lyre:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X0qpj28ylIA&pp=ygUQY29ybyBkZWkgbWFyaW5haQ%3D%3D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r-qt-C7hKnE&pp=ygUQY29ybyBkZWkgbWFyaW5haQ%3D%3D

I wish I could make out the words to sing along with them.

The lyrics of Orpheus are:

Deh, Anfitrite del mar [O Amphitrite of the sea]

venti del ciel [winds of heaven]

invochiamo. [we invoke.]