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Samson and His Mighty Challenge is an Italian sword and sandal film, released in 1964. Its original title was Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili. ("Hercules, Samson, Maciste, and Ursus: the Invincibiles")

Cast

Alan Steel as Hercules
Howard Ross as Maciste
Nadir Baltimore as Samson
Yann L'Arvor as Ursus

Synopsis

Hercules argues with his father Zeus who thinks that his son should follow thw road of virtue. Instead, Hercules follows the road of pleasure whitch leads him to the city of Lydia. There he falls in love with the princess Omphale and he asks from her mother Nemea the permition to marry her. Although Nemea is thrilled with the idea of having a demigod as a husband for her daughter, Omphale doesn't even want to hear about it because she is in love with Inor the barbarian prince. So couple crafts a cunning plan.

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 thw 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 doesn't let him go. In order to return to Lydia with Samson, he hires the troublemaker Ursus who recenty lost a fight to Maciste to kidnap him.

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