Samson and His Mighty Challenge


Samson and His Mighty Challenge is an Italian swordandsandal film, released in 1964 at the tail end of the peplum craze. Its original title was Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili Hercules, Samson, Maciste, and Ursus the Invincibles. It is also known as Samson and the Mighty Challenge, Combate dei Gigantes, Triumph of the Giants or Le Grand Defi.

They hide their dwarf friend under the statue of Zeus and he tells Hercules that in order to marry Omphale he must battle with the most powerful man in the world Samson. Hercules agrees and the queen sends a messenger to tell Samson about the fight. Samson agrees, although his wife Delilah thinks that it is not a good idea because her husband has a taste for beautiful women. So Delilah cuts his hair and makes him weak. However, the messenger does not know this, and he thinks that his wife doesnt let him go. In order to return to Lydia with Samson, he hires the troublemaker Ursus who recently lost a fight to Maciste to kidnap him.In 1993 this film was rereleased as a comedy under the name Hercules Returns. The original dialogue was overdubbed by Australian actors and a number of extra scenes were filmed. ........

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