Hercules, Samson and Ulysses
Hercules, Samson and Ulysses, () is a 1963 Italian Metrocolor peplum film directed by Pietro Francisci. The costume designers for this movie used re-purposed Nazi helmets for the Philistine headgear. Plot In Ithaca, off the coast of Greece, Hercules is living a happy family life with his wife Iole and his little son at the court of Laertes, father of Ulysses. Ulysses is a youth who demonstrates athletic ability, though not Hercules' super-strength, and is already in love with a girl named Penelope. A delegation of fishermen comes to ask King Laertes to do something about a sea monster that is killing some of them. Hercules volunteers to slay the monster, Laertes provides him with a ship and crew, and Ulysses goes along with them, taking a cageful of homing pigeons at his parents' insistence, though he says they'll be back in a day and a half. They find the sea monster and Hercules spears it, but a huge storm comes up and they must fight to survive. They cut the monster loose and it sinks to die, but the ship is wrecked and only six men, including Hercules and Ulysses, are left to float on a fragment of it.