Hercules & The Captive Women

[kybearfuzz]

Not being able to add entries to LJ at work has severely bummed me out. I can still read and comment when time permits, but all new entries will have to be done at night. Darn.

For the flight home from Arizona, I downloaded a couple of movies to my iPad. One was "Elvira's Movie Macabre" where she skewered "Hercules and The Captive Women" starring British beefcake Reg Park in the title role.

The movie is just as bad as you would expect of the 1960's Italian Hercules movies, but no one can deny that Herc is fantastic eye candy. Bearded and muscled with a smile that could remove underwear from a distance, Reg Park certainly lifted and hauled his way through this movie and kept me incredibly entertained. The rest of the flick is full of things to be mocked and Elvira does it well.

Of course, there are more than a few errors in filming, the most noticeable by me was Herc's magic chest hair that vanished and appeared several times in succession as he struggled to haul an escaping ship back to shore by the anchor chain.


Smooth-chested Hercules


Hairy-chested Hercules
It's obvious that the close-ups were filmed long after the original beach scene, but I certainly am not complaining. Personally, I think they should have left him hairy throughout the movie. It wasn't a bad way to get through a three-hour flight.

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

Bearded and muscled with a smile that could remove underwear from a distance,

Now, there's a description!! :)

WHy did your workplace restrict LJ all of a sudden?

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

I thought Reg made a fine-looking runner-up to Steve Reeves when it came to portraying Hercules. I don't suppose we'll ever see a restored/refurbished Hercules movie on Blu-ray. Sigh.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... You know, if you can still read and comment on LJ, I wonder if they didn't actively block posting, and maybe it's just a side-effect of blocking something else (likely a javascript something) that shows up on LJ's post page. What happens if you try to post from the mobile version of the site (m.livejournal.com)? (Or maybe install noscript on your work browser?) Might be worth a shot...

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

Herc's chestal hair kept disappearing and reappearing? Curiouser and curiouser! That's what he gets for using Lee's Press-On Chest Hair! ;)

Reg Park is hot!

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

OMG I loved that movie. Reg Park was THE Hercules for me back then.

There was one scene, I think it was in this film, where he wakes up on a boat and does this huge stretch and flexes his arms. I remember seeing that for the first time as a kid and....schwiiiing!...lol