Hercules and the Captive Women

In this 60’s film, Hercules is absolutely huge AND he hangs out with a midget. Hercules (actually Hercules’ controlling wife) decides he’s done with fighting and pillaging. So his friends drug him and put him on a ship for a voyage. Hercules wakes up and isn’t mad at all, but he does manage to sleep like 18 hours a day (like my fried Coach used to). Hercules ends up on an island where women are being morphed into the very rock face (using really poor special effects. Then he fights a giant lizard that turns into a lion that turns into a condor being pulled about the sound stage on a visible string (PETA would love this film) that turns back into the lizard that Hercules pulls the horn off its head to defeat. The lizard condor guy was the god that Atlantis folks pray to, so they’re quite bothered that he killed their top guy. Then the girl Hercules rescues says, “Today is dedicated to Uranus.” And of course I cracked up because I’m 12. And apparently, the only captive woman in the film is the one he rescued from turning into stone. Hercules sets free all of Atlantis’ slaves and the soldiers set off to kill him. But not before the soldiers kill all the slaves. Seriously, there are corpses (some of which forgot they weren’t supposed to move in the wide-shots) laying all over the place. Like most things in the 60’s, it’s just not worth revisiting.