3/06/2016

Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules/Anthar l'Invincibile/Soraya Reina Del Desierto (1964) - Margheriti's awful desert walk

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The cheap and sexually unsubtle poster for Antonio Margheriti's Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules

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The evil Ganor seizes power over a sultan kingdom, but the rebellious princess Soraya will escape and pose a revolt!

This film, with the wretched English title Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules, is the 8th from Italian shlock director Antonio Margheriti (Yor, the Hunter from the Future/Il Mondo di Yor (1983)). The extremely poor image quality on the DVD prints of it in circulation today do not help it any, but it would be a true bomb nonetheless. 
None of the 'characters' are presented or speak for enough time that we really learn anything at all about them, while dull fights continually break out. Devil of the Desert is a bunch of pointless nonsense without any mitigating qualities. An ugly desert walk!
Note also that it can't even really count as a Hercules movie, because despite the name appearing in the title, there are no actors credited as Hercules in it. The film was written by Arturo Rígel (Mentirosa (1962)), André Tabet (The Secret Killer/Le Vampire de Düsseldorf (1965)) and Guido Malatesta (Fire over Rome/L'Incendio di Roma (1965)).



Watch a five-minute clip from the movie here

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[Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules was released June 27 (Italy) and runs 114 minutes (Italy)/93 minutes (US). The only number concerning its release I can find is that a million people paid admission to see it in Spain, which is amazing and must make it a commercial success just from this one market. The (especially past) appeal of the peplum genre, even in its worst iterations, continues to amaze. Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules has been given a 3.8/ average rating by 180 users.]

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