Hercules and the Masked Rider

{{short description|1963 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Hercules and the Masked Rider

| image = Hercules and the Masked Rider.jpg

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| director = Piero Pierotti

| producer = Fortunato Misiano{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}

| screenplay = {{plainlist|* Luciano Martino

• Piero Perotti
• Ernesto Gastaldi
• Arpad DeRiso{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}}}

| story = {{plainlist|* Luciano Martino

• Piero Perotti{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}}}

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| starring = {{plainlist|* Alan Steel

• Mimmo Palmara
• Jose Greci}}

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| cinematography = Augusto Tiezzi{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}

| editing = Jolanda Benvenuti{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}

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| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1963|11|17|Italy}}

| runtime = 85 minutes{{sfn|Kinnard|Crnkovich|2017|p=87}}

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Hercules and the Masked Rider ({{langx|it|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.Michele Giordano. Giganti buoni. Gremese Editore, 1998. {{ISBN|8877421835}}.{{cite book|last=Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film|date=2007 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2007|isbn=978-8884405036}}{{cite book|last1=Jay Slater|title=Eaten alive!: Italian cannibal and zombie movies|year=2002|publisher=Plexus, 2002|isbn=0859653145}}