Heroic Hercules battles the seductive powers of the wicked Queen of Atlantis!
In the 1963 color film, "Hercules and the Captive Women," a sleepy Hercules discovers that Queen Atlantis plans to use her superhuman warriors to take over the world.
Hercules and Androcles (Ettore Manni), the King of Tebes, journey to the island of Atlantis where the evil queen (Fay Spain) has hatched a diabolical plan for world domination.
The movie was filmed on a particularly lavish scale, this was the only Hercules film photographed in 70mm.
Produced: April 15, 1963.
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi
Writers: Vittorio Cottafavi (writer) and
Sandro Continenza (writer)
Cast (Cast overview, first billed only)
Reg Park...Ercole (Hercules)
Fay Spain...Queen Antinea of Atlantis
Ettore Manni...King Androcles of Thebes
Luciano Marin...Hylus, son of Hercules
Laura Efrikian...Ismene, Antinea's Daughter (as Laura Altan)
Enrico Maria Salerno...King of Megara
Ivo Garrani...King of Megalia
Gian Maria Volontè...King of Sparta
Mimmo Palmara...Antinea's Grand Vizier
Mario Petri...Zantas, Priest of Uranus
Mino Doro...The Oracle
Salvatore Furnari...Timoteo the Midget
Alessandro Sperli
Mario Valdemarin
Luciana Angiolillo...Dejanira