Hercules and the Masked Rider
# Hercules and the Masked Rider

Hercules and the Masked Rider (Italian: 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.

## 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. It received a release in the United States in 1964 with an 86-minute running time.

