Hercules and the Masked Rider
Directed by	Piero Pierotti
Screenplay by	Luciano Martino Piero Perotti Ernesto Gastaldi Arpad DeRiso[1]
Story by	Luciano Martino Piero Perotti[1]
Produced by	Fortunato Misiano[1]
Starring	Alan Steel Mimmo Palmara Jose Greci
Cinematography	Augusto Tiezzi[1]
Edited by	Jolanda Benvenuti[1]
Release date	17 November 1963 (1963-11-17) (Italy)
Running time	85 minutes[1]

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.^[2][3][4]

Plot

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.^[1] It received a release in the United States in 1964 with an 86-minute running time.^[1]