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{{short description|1963 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Hercules and the Masked Rider
| image          = Hercules and the Masked Rider.jpg
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| director       = [[Piero Pierotti]]
| producer       = [[Fortunato Misiano]]{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}
| screenplay     = {{plainlist|* [[Luciano Martino]]
* Piero Perotti
* [[Ernesto Gastaldi]]
* [[Arpad DeRiso]]{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}}}
| story          = {{plainlist|* Luciano Martino
* Piero Perotti{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}}}
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| starring       = {{plainlist|* [[Alan Steel]]
* [[Mimmo Palmara]]
* [[Jose Greci]]}}
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| cinematography = [[Augusto Tiezzi]]{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}
| editing        = [[Jolanda Benvenuti]]{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}
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| released       =  {{Film date|df=yes|1963|11|17|Italy}}
| runtime        = 85 minutes{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}
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'''''Hercules and the Masked Rider''''' ({{langx|it|Golia e il cavaliere mascherato}}, also known as ''Goliath and the Masked Rider'') is a 1963 Italian [[peplum film]] written and directed  by [[Piero Pierotti]] and starring [[Alan Steel]] and [[Mimmo Palmara]]. A crossover film, it is set in the seventeenth century [[Spain]] and it features [[Hercules]] ([[Goliath]] in the original version)  in a [[Zorro]]-like scenario.<ref>Michele Giordano. ''Giganti buoni''. Gremese Editore, 1998. {{ISBN|8877421835}}.</ref><ref name="60-69 z">{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film|date=2007 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2007|isbn=978-8884405036}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Jay Slater|title=Eaten alive!: Italian cannibal and zombie movies|year=2002|publisher=Plexus, 2002|isbn=0859653145}}</ref>
==Plot==
{{no plot|date=September 2015}}
==Cast==
*[[Alan Steel]] as [[Hercules]]/[[Goliath]]
*[[Mimmo Palmara]] as Don Juan
*[[José Greci]] as Dona Blanca
*[[Pilar Cansino]] as Estella, the Gypsy Queen
*[[Arturo Dominici]] as Don Ramiro Suarez
*[[Dina De Santis]] as Dolores
*Piero Leri as Felipe
*[[Renato Navarrini]] as Don Francisco
*[[Loris Gizzi]] as Pedro
*[[Ettore Manni]] as Captain Blasco
*[[Tullio Altamura]] as Ruiz
*[[Ugo Sasso]] as Hermann
*Armando Guarnieri as Don Alvarez
==Release==
''Hercules and the Masked Rider'' was released in Italy on 17 November 1963 with an 85-minute running time.{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}} It received a release in the United States in 1964 with an 86-minute running time.{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}
==See also==
* [[List of films featuring Hercules]]
==Footnotes==
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===References===
{{refbegin}}
* {{cite book
|last1=Kinnard
|first1=Roy
|last2=Crnkovich
|first2=Tony
|title=Italian Sword and Sandal Films, 1908-1990
|publisher=McFarland
|isbn=978-1476662916
|year=2017
}}
{{refend}}
==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0178515}}
[[Category:Italian adventure films]]
[[Category:1960s adventure films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Piero Pierotti]]
[[Category:Films set in Spain]]
[[Category:Films set in the 17th century]]
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Ernesto Gastaldi]]
[[Category:Sword-and-sandal films]]
[[Category:Goliath]]
[[Category:1960s Italian films]]
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