One of my Saturday matinee heroes from back in the day. Hercules could clean a stable like no one else! Okay, it wasn't in the movie, but Steve Reeves introduced me to the world of Greco Roman myth, and I'm glad he did.
Hercules** These Movies Remind Me So Much Of The Bible And The Era Of Biblical Morals. I Was Mesmerized By The Great Physical Strength Of Hercules And The Other Men Of Old. Much Wisdom Was Exhibit In These Movies In Italy And The Other Eastern Countries. **Priceless** **Precious**
These movies I can recall my childhood. A kid of 9 or 10. With a dollar in my pocket saved from my Birthday money. To go to a movie matinee. For under 12 for $0.35 cents. "Love was in your eyes". Sounds just like the first time I heard it. How strange how it all comes back. To remember simplisity in film. Following a plot. No underlining tones of self pity and messed up minds. And Steve Reaves. Still looked as good at 69. I remember in his contract... " it was written that his name was to be bigger on the screen than the title of the movie". Funny now to see him walk how flat footed he was. And Mr. Univers all with just good food snd exercise. I so loved being a kid again. Thank you for bringing my Saturday afternoons at the movies back to me... once again. 👍😎👍
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Beautiful movie and timeless. Steve Reeves was the best character for hercules, his gait, posture, expression and movement. Thanks to the uploader and owner of this RU-vid channel. I enjoyed the movie and will save it in my playlist.
Takes me back! I saw 'Hercules' and 'Hercules Unchained' when they first came to the big theater in Akron, Ohio. Steve Reeves was the best in these roles. Went crazy trying to find anything about Hercules in any book. The next Hercules movies starred Reg Park who was bigger, slower and not nearly as good looking. I remember reading how upset Steve Reeves got when he went to the premier in Hollywood and got so angry that they had dubbed over his voice. Don't think the movies with his actual voice were ever made available. He thought the dubbing was for other countries not America and English speaking places like England, Canada and Australia. Sad really.
"She'd like a new husband like every woman" says Primo Carnera- Anteaus. What a laugh he has. Then Reeves kicks his butt and throws him over the side of the cliff and into the water. Timeless for sure. Thanks for the great upload.
Hercules Unchained .. real entertainment .. Steve Reeves before steroids just good food and vitamins .. no weird transformers .. lovely ballet ..! :) Top Notch !
Steve reeves was told to lose about 30lbs of weight because they thought that he was to big!!---Reeves was a huge hit in Europe- what with his great lookes and tailored suits, a natural body builder, who was a top choice to play "the man with no name" ahead of Clint Eastwood, but he turned it down because he thought the part didnt suit him!!!-----lovely guy---x
@@richardyoung1890 I did too. I saw this film in 1965 on TV when I was a skinny 13. A week later my parents got me a 110 pound barbell and dumbbell set. I still have it in my home gym, mostly for nostalgia, but it's still usable. Those things last forever. And I still enjoy Steve Reeves films. He was the best Hercules ever.
This was the great era of Italian sword and sandal movies, a few years later came the spaghetti westerns, and then the great horror movies. Gone are the days of enjoyable films.
These Movies Express Very Clearly The Standard And The Honor And The Respect Of The Universal GOD. Along With The Other Gods, The People Gave Reverence To Them As Well. Good Morals And Lessons ToTake Heed To.
I saw this movie in the theatre in 1959 & still feel that Steeve Reeves is the most perfect example of a well proportioned body, over later versions i.e . Arnold Swartzenagger or Sylvester Stallone.
My uncle was an amateur weightlifter and bodybuilder In the 1950s he’s a Hawaiian local. When we would have cook outs he’d tell us his stories when he was in the navy and stories of bodybuilding. He told me he seen Steve Reeves in person and when I asked how he looked in real life . My uncleś voice pauses and his faces got serious. His mouth dropped open and said .. ” He was a beautiful man. Perfect face body and skin with a perfect tan. That he looked like a Greek God.” That made a lasting impression on me because my uncle has a BIG EGO and is not quick to give anyone a compliment and for my uncle’s personality to use the word ” beautiful “ describing a man means Reeves really must’ve been a real looker not just on the screen but he must’ve had an almost magnetic presence in person.
Ron Gendron I agree. Reeves was genetically gifted but obviously worked very hard in the gym and looked to be the ultimate in NATURAL physical development. Arnold and even a few before him ushered in the steroid age in body building, and it was over the top and unnatural. But society seems to be drawn to both steroid results and silicon implanted women.
The cinematography and effects were done by Mario Brava, a famous well-respected cinematographer, effects, and director. Good on location sets. All practical effects just like Spielberg used in the early Indiana Jones movies. The soundtrack score uses a real symphony (something that's never done today, because they suck). And the women are actually hot. You see the women in film these days? Ugly feminists. lol!
Oh my does this bring back memories of when I was young and had gone to the movies....I loved watching this....paid only 50 cents to get in and popcorn and candy was either 10 cents or up to 50 cents could get myself a whole lot of candy to watch at the movies with....gone are the days when things were easier to enjoy a good movie, and have heroes to look up to, creating and enjoying a simpler life better than what some of it is now. ...too much technology for me, and actors/actresses seem to want too much money anymore, and are not as good doing their acting jobs....to be an actor/actress was not just a job but an art....only a rare few today can qualify for those areas.
...right..Momma-&-Grandmomma-...would DROP Us off ...@...Saturday...matinees'...$ 1.25...went a LONG WAY BACK in those DAYS and We all GOT our ...money''s WORTH...come pick us up ''Poppa & My Uncles would clean all those FISH Momma'' them Got from The Markets shuck all that corn snap those Butter Beans prepare all that chicken for SUNDAY''s ...Dinner...these Kids' NowAdays wouldn't know anything about ...that..!?
1000% TRUE about life and the bad actor's in the last 20 years !! Tech & money have corrupted any semblance of class and quality in the Hollywood for DECADES ...😡🤢🤢
Steve L Reeves the 13th god of Mt Olympus the greatest physique of all-time and one the most impressive looking man in the world,he was second to NONE....
Were women better looking then ? Were they fitter ? Were they much-more the Lady ? More women of integrity ? Not too many sex-changes for 'men'. Steeve did make a handsome, 'normally' well-built man. Today body builders are dropping dead from drugs. What I wanna know is, are the delicious females French or Italian. Anyone remember sitting on the floor as a kid, with a little B&W or that old color encased in 100 lb's of furniture and just eating all this up back in the early 60's ? It's just as magical now as it was 60 years ago. I don't think times were really any better or worse then. They were indeed different. What you miss are magical chilhood memories and that they're gone. It's not cause things are so bad now. Unless you live in California.
“Hercules” and it’s sequel ‘Hercules Unchained” were two humongous Steve Reeves adventure matinee blockbusters from 1958 and 1959 respectively. I was six and seven years old respectively, and mesmerized by this bodybuilder Reeves who played the part of a mythological Superman. A great role model, two exciting old films that ain’t no epics, of course, but carry happy memories. A much more spectacular matinee pick was “Jason And The Argonauts.” But the all-time matinee draw, the one that had us kids lined up at the rear theater entrance the length of the building and out into the parking lot, was 1961’s “Atlantis, The Lost Continent.” There was something about the existence of a defunct society of scientists that captured our imagination back then.
Both Arnold And Sylvester Are TOO Bulky To PLAY THE Part Of HERCULES PHYSICALY!Only Steve Reeves LookSo MUSCULAR AWESOME Because He Has THOSE BODYBUILDING BEEFCAKE MUSCULAR ManlySEXUAL PHYSICALY APPEALING PHISQUE Like A GREEK GOD 😉 😀 🙄 😜 🤣 😳!✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨!
I was brought up on sword and sandals movies. My father was a competitive bodybuilder and from a young age he told me that all men should look like Steve Reeves. I did feel sorry for the queen. I thought it was sad that she ended her life.
This film was "Distribuited by Warner Bros Pictures,Inc" Courtesy of Rialto Pictures, Lionsgate, MGM, Sony Pictures Television and StudioCanal Image 1958
Saint-Saens based his tone poem "Omphale's Spinning Wheel" on the myth of Hercules and Omphale (it's best known as the theme of the long-running Shadow radio series)
There seem to be several versions of this same film here on RU-vid. Some with the nice opening titles (this one) and others with rougher, more basic titles. Those are seen on the wide screen nice quality uploads. So I'm thinking that in the remaster, they redid the titles (but the earlier ones - gold color - are far superior and match the music and theme best). Also, the earlier flick, 'Hercules' (1958) uses different voice actors for the roles of Iole and Hercules on some uploads. It's very distracting if you've known this version. The voices here match very well.
@@larrysepicmovies5044 I see. Can you tell which version is this? And did they use different voice actors between versions? Also, do you happen to know the name of the voice actor who plays Hercules in this version?
When movies were clean and no cussing or men kissing men and women kissing women and nudity and sex are not done and it is a good move with out all that bad stuff in it to bad we don't have good movies like this today .
The Chinese have been stealing IP(intellectual property) for the last four decades..time somebody stood up to this dictatorship. Go trump! Down with the Republicans and dummycratts
They make different versions of the same movies try watching them in other languages jusst like the movie Dune a woman narrates on a 90 version instead of a mans deep voice
How about the anchor for the ship .. It was a big rock tied the a rope and Hercules just picked it up and threw it over the side .. ! Wish we could do that to the demo ..rats in the WH. Check out the ballet.. Colleen Bennett the lovely ballerina does 69 yoga positions in the beautiful Indian ( first Bollywood dance ) too bad Hillary Clintsin didn’t learn yoga.. her life would have been different .. maybe yoga could be taught in schools here .. what a difference it would make for our children .. oh well .. one keeps wishing !
Yea, now you got Trump who started a Trade War with China, by raising Tariffs up 10% starting Sept. 24, 2018. Which amounts to 200$Billion worth on Chinese Goods. Then from 10% to 25% by the end of the year 2018. The Chinese will outlast us on a Trade War you Idiot !!! But , don't worry . You can always blame Hillary Clinton for that too , you soporific Fool !!!