Samson and His Mighty Challenge (1964)
Note: this print runs 137 minutes against a recorded 100 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Howard Ross, Alan Steel, Hélène Chanel, Moira Orfei, Elisa Montés, Livio Lorenzon, Lia Zoppelli, Conrado San Martín
Directed by Giorgio Capitani
Samson and His Mighty Challenge is a 1964 Italian sword-and-sandal film, released in 1965 at the very 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 (Battle of the Giants), Triumph of the Giants or Le Grand Defi (The Great Battle).
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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