I got the Spanish Blu-ray of HERCULES UNCHAINED (1959) and sadly this print is identical to the RAI TV HD broadcast, the Japanese Blu-ray release, which aren't that good. Passable but not a new print. The quality of the image seems more compressed than the Japanese BD.
Above is a screenshot of the Spanish Blu-ray. It's ok but once you see how the actual widescreen image should be (below; from a German DVD), the image is cropped. Everything outside the red box is not there. The framing is all wrong. In some scenes, it's quite awful. Some apparently don't mind this but I don't think it's acceptable. Hopefully, the Artus Films prints from the British Film Institute will be correct.
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Does it have an Italian language track? The color seems much improved over the German DVD.
Spanish and Italian audios included.
I got this and was not as disappointed as you were. The only other widescreen copy of the film I have is a German DVD and it is cut by ten minutes. Another plus for me was the Italian language track. This is my favorite peplum film and it is nice to finally have a widescreen copy on Blu-ray.
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