Release, runtime and language

1959 · 98 mins · Italian

Directed by

Pietro Francisci

Starring

Giuliano Gemma, Carlo D'Angelo, Fabrizio Mioni, Daniele Vargas, Steve Reeves, Gabriele Antonini

While on a diplomatic mission to Thebes, Hercules drinks from a magical spring that wipes his memory. He spends much of the story in the lavish gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia, where a young Ulysses tries to restore his recollection. Meanwhile, political tensions rise in Thebes and Hercules’s new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.