Two weeks ago I posted about a Filipino movie called HERCULES and released in 1953. There's very little information on this but IMDb lists it. Someone wrote at a blog that the movie itself is not real but another title. But upon further investigation, mainly thanks to Paul, the movie seems to be real but it is considered a lost film. As the image above shows, at the bottom right, it's part of list of 'Lost Filipino Films.'
But...there's a website that claims they have it. I personally don't trust those kind of websites and I won't register to find out but I highly doubt they have it. Anyway, if someone wants to try it go ahead.
I can accept the fact that the movie is lost but I find it hard that all publicity material and photos of the movie are also lost. If there were a couple of photos or another poster artwork I would believe it but for now I'm not 100% convinced of it being real, mainly because the poster artwork looks more 1960s than early 1950s.
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Perhaps someone could ask Ms. Gloria Romero herself. Here she is two months ago with her daughter: https://celebrityworldph.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/gloria-romero-not-dead-as-erroneously-reported/
This poster for the film Diwani (1953) has a very similar design to that for Hercules, although it does list the director at the bottom. http://video48.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-fifties-574-alicia-vergel-and-cesar.html
If both posters do come from 1953 then this suggests that there was in fact a film Hercules (at least in preparation).
The only connection of Gloria Romero with 'Hercules' I could find is this one from 2018...
Gloria Romero stars as the storyteller in the Philippine TV fantasy series for kids "Daig Kayo Ng Lola Ko" (My Fairy Grandmother):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daig_Kayo_ng_Lola_Ko
This episode from 2018 is about Hercules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mV8oYLus_M
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