Maciste, l'uomo più forte del mondo (1961)

Adventure Drama Fantasy Romance

Maciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city's queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can't follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the "world above." If Katar can marry her...

Updated May 24 2020

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Runtime: 94 mins Rating: 4.0

Cast

Moira Orfei

Queen Halis Mosab

Franca Polesello

Queen's Handmaid

Graziella Granata

Queen's Handmaid

Carolyn De Fonseca

Queen Halis Mosab (voice) (uncredited)

Raffaella Carrà

Princess Salirah

Gianni Garko

Kathar - Kahab's Son

Nando Tamberlani

Khur - King of Aran (as Ferdinando Tamberlani)

Enrico Glori

Kahab - the High Priest