![]() ![]() When Hercules rides to rescue Hyllus he saves the life of Alcinoe who is menaced by a bear. Hyllus attempts to rescue Thea but is captured. The plan is aborted through a sympathetic goddess of the Wind who relays Thea's warning. Eurystheus himself wishes to marry Thea and install her as his queen. A slave girl Alcinoe gives Hyllus a poison to give to Hercules that she says is merely a potion to have Hercules fall out of love with Thea. The scheming Eurystheus has convinced Hyllus that Thea is really in love with Hercules rather than him and concocts a plan where a jealous Hyllus will murder his own brother. The enraged Hercules refuses to let Hyllus have anything to do with Thea. Hercules returns to his wife Deianira to find that his teenaged son (his brother in the American version) Hyllus is in love with Thea the daughter of a king that Hercules believes murdered his family. The episode is loosely based on the twelfth of the Labours of Hercules. It is later revealed that king Eurystheus has sent Hercules on this task to ensure his death to gain allies who after Hercules' death will join the king in an attack on Thebes. The film begins with Hercules/Goliath entering the underworld and defeating several monsters including Cerberus to retrieve the blood diamond of the goddess of vengeance. The dragon sequence is only in the Americanized English-dubbed print, not in the original Italian version. American International Pictures changed the hero's name from "Hercules" to "Emilius" ("Goliath") and added a Wah Ming Chang stop-motion animation sequence inserting a dragon sub-plot into the story. The name of the main character was changed from Hercules to Emilius (known in the film as Goliath) for release in North America by American International Pictures to sell it as a sequel to their earlier Goliath and the Barbarians (1959).Īmerican International Pictures had announced plans to create a "sequel" to Goliath and the Barbarians called Goliath and the Dragon based on a script by Lou Rusoff for star Debra Paget, but the project fell through, so they bought the rights to an already-made Italian film called Revenge of Hercules and retitled it Goliath and the Dragon. ![]() ![]() Goliath and the Dragon ( Italian: La vendetta di Ercole, lit.'Revenge of Hercules') is a 1960 international co-production sword-and-sandal film starring Mark Forest and Broderick Crawford. ![]()
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