This film is impossible to get. It does exist...somewhere. Anyway, this is one of the first films which shows Hercules, albeit in a supporting role. The first feature length film about Hercules would appear 35 years later and made in Italy : Hercules starring Steve Reeves. It's amazing that such a mythical character inspired so few films prior to the Reeves / Francisci epic. Elissa Landi was also in SIGN OF THE CROSS just a year before.
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Great photo! The film is based on the 1932 Broadway play which featured the young Katharine Hepburn in her breakthrough role as Antiope.
I saw on IMDB that there is a 16mm print at the Modern Museum of Art in New York. I guess it's still there, and I'm sure Fox has a copy hidden in its vaults.
Looks like great fun! Too bad it's not available at this point in time.
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