En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.

Steve Reeves
as Ercole (Hercules)

Sylva Koscina
as Iole, bride of Ercole

Sylvia Lopez
as Queen Onfale, of Lidia

Gabriele Antonini
as Ulisse, son of Laertes

Primo Carnera
as Anteo, the giant

Patrizia Della Rovere
as Penelope

Sergio Fantoni
as Eteocle

Fulvia Franco
as Anticlea

Carlo D'Angelo
as Creonte, High Priest of Thebes

Marisa Valenti
as Blond Slave Girl
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_**Married to Sylva but bewitched by Sylvia**_ "Hercules Unchained" (1959) is an Italian/French/Spanish sword & sandal flick in the mold of Kirk Douglas' "Ulysses" (1954). "Hercules Unchained" is more of the same, with a similar plot, i.e. the journeying hero forgets who he is while bewitched by ...