Dan Vadis, as Hercules, and Enzo Fiermonte in TRIUMPH OF HERCULES (1964)
This Hercules movie is also a Hercules movie in its original Italian version. It's not a Maciste film re-titled into Hercules for US markets. Dan is quite impressive (he's 6'4") and is very athletic so it works with Hercules but it's always a bit odd to watch a beardless Hercules. If you follow the blog, you know that I don't often criticize PEPLUM movies for their lack of logic. I personally watch them for entertainment, the colours, the beefy action, etc. There are a lot of PEPLUM movies which seem to lack some internal logic but I don't care. But in this case, this movie has A LOT of issues! I've already wrote about it many times before. And it's not a case of a Maciste movie turned Hercules, which would explain discrepancies. But in this shot alone, we see Hercules chained with the tiniest chain. What would that do? Hercules could snap those chains in a fraction of a second. It seems the writers didn't actually know much about Hercules. I love this movie. It's very entertaining but there are a lot of silly details which confound me.
Side note: the shield in the background is the same shield seen in the MACISTE AGAINST HERCULES IN THE VALE OF WOE (1961), posted last Friday. The same shield also appeared in FURY OF ACHILLES (1962) and they were first seen in THE MINOTAUR (1960) but with different colours.
